Sister Jeanette DeBrosse A Mass of Christian Burial for Sister of Notre Dame de Namur Jeanette DeBrosse was celebrated May 31 at Mount Notre Dame Health Center. Sister Jeanette, 89, died May 24. She was a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur for 71 years. A Dayton native, Sister Jeanette …

Press Release Archdiocese of Cincinnati Father Gerald “Jerry” R. Niklas died Saturday, August 15. He was 81. Father Niklas was born on October 17, 1933 in Cincinnati. He did his preparatory studies at St. Gregory Seminary and studied theology at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West in Norwood. He was ordained …

Staff Report Carla J. (Holzman) Conlon, mother of the Most Reverend R. Daniel Conlon, Bishop of Joliet, Illinois, died Monday. She was 85. Carla Conlon leaves behind her husband of 67 years Robert J. Conlon and six children.

By Mark Zimmermann Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Cardinal William W. Baum, the archbishop of Washington from 1973 to 1980, died July 23 at the age of 88 after a long illness. He was a cardinal for 39 years — the longest such tenure in U.S. church history. Cardinal Baum witnessed …

By Catholic News Service  CLEVELAND — Retired Bishop A. Edward Pevec of Cleveland, the son of Slovenian immigrants who was a priest for 64 years and a bishop for 20 of those years, died Dec. 14 in Cleveland. He was 89. Retired Auxiliary Bishop Roger W. Gries of Cleveland was …

By Catholic News Service  WASHINGTON — Retired Archbishop Joseph T. Dimino, who headed the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services for six years, died Nov. 25 in Washington. He was 91. The native of New York, who was ordained for the Archdiocese of New York in 1949, served in the …

Staff Report Father Joseph A. Bruemmer died Tuesday morning, Sept. 30, at St. Paul’s Archbishop Leibold Home for the Aged. He was 91.

Father John “Jack” J. Mattscheck died Thursday morning, May 29.

Reverend Bernard Huan Tien Nguyen, a retired priest of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, passed away on Friday, Jan. 31, at the age of 76.

Press Release DAYTON, Ohio — The Rev. Joseph Lackner, S.M., who died Sunday in Seoul, South Korea, following complications from a heart attack, is being remembered today for his intellectual curiosity, humor, care for others, cooking prowess — and ability to give a brilliant homily. “In my estimation, he was …