Sister Therese Moore, S.C., a Sister of Charity, Halifax, for 51 years, died Dec. 17 in Halifax after a long illness. She was 72.

Formerly Sister Sheila Patrick, she taught in Quebec, Halifax and locally at St. Sebastian School, Woodside.

She is survived by her brother, Thomas, and sister, Sister Sheila Moore, S.C.

Burial was in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Halifax.

Retired Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Juan A. Arzube died Dec. 25 at the age of 89.

One of the first Hispanic bishops ordained in the United States in nearly 100 years when he was made a Los Angeles auxiliary in 1971, he was involved with various issues in the Church and in the community prompted new outreach to Hispanics in the Los Angeles Archdiocese.

During his 53 years as a priest, Bishop Arzube served primarily at parishes in downtown Los Angeles and other Mexican-American communities. He was active in assorted efforts to assist immigrants, supervised the erection of a shrine at Our Lady of Guadalupe, a mission church where he served, and supported the creation of the Episcopal Commission of the Alta Baja Bishops, for bishops from U.S. and Mexican border states.

Bishop Arzube’s family background included a saint. A cousin, Christian Brother Miguel Febres Cordero, was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1984. One of the Christian Brothers’ first pupils in Ecuador, Cordero was born in 1854 and entered the order at age 14. His teaching career lasted 32 years and his textbooks on grammar and linguistics were adopted for use by the Ecuadorian government.

Sister Phyllis Horne, C.S.J., 87, a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph for 68 years, died Dec. 25, in South Side Hospital, Bay Shore.

She entered the congregation in 1940 from St. Patrick parish, Bay Ridge.

With the exception of St. Pius X, Plainview, her teaching ministry in elementary education was spent in the Brooklyn Diocese beginning in St. Cecilia, Greenpoint, 1941-46; St. Michael, Sunset Park, 1946-49; Our Lady of Victory, Bedford-Stuyvesant, 1949-50; Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Sunset Park, 1950-59; St. Rita, Long Island City, 1959-60; St. Teresa of Avila, Sterling Pl., 1960-64; Visitation, Red Hook, 1964-71; St. Brendan, Midwood, 1971-72; Blessed Sacrament, Cypress Hills, 1972-76; and St. Michael, Flushing, 1979-86.

In 1986 she worked with the Visiting Nurses in Flushing as a business manager and finally at St. Michael, Flushing, as parish secretary.

She is survived by her brother, Bill and her sister, Catherine. 

A Mass of Christian Burial took place in Sacred Heart Chapel, Brentwood, on Dec. 28, followed by her interment in Calvary Cemetery, also Brentwood.
 

Lourdes Balayan Madarang, a beloved leader in the Filipino community died Dec. 30 at Lutheran Medical Center, Sunset Park, surrounded by her children, their spouses and grandchildren. She was 85.

A member of St. Finbar parish, Bath Beach, she is a former president of the Filipino-American Association of Brooklyn, and former first vice president of the Ilocano-American Association of N.Y.

After a career in teaching, Madarang immigrated to the United States and changed career paths advancing in financial services and banking with several prominent companies. She was very devoted to her family and friends during their relocation process into the United States, and was widely admired for her generosity, contributions and service within the Filipino-American community in the Brooklyn diocese.

Widowed by her late husband, Poligeno Vergara Madarang in 1992, she is survived by her four children, Ricardo Madarang, Lourdes Isaac, Virginia Sison and Alicia Cardenas; five grandchildren, Susan Michelle Sison, Richard and Andrew Isaac, Tomas and Anna Cardenas; and two sons-in-law, Roberto Isaac and Joseph ‘TJ’ Cardenas.

Her daughter, Lourdes ‘Patti’ Isaac currently serves as a liaison for the Filipino Charismatic Renewal in the diocese; and Madarang’s son-in-law, Joseph Cardenas, serves on the Advisory Board for the New Evangelization to Bishop Frank Caggiano, and the Parish Council of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, Forest Hills.

Madarang is also survived by two sisters, Soledad Diaz of Seattle, Washington, and Carmen Garrido and her husband, former Ambassador Ernesto Garrido, and nephew, Ernesto M. Maceda of Manila, Philippines, the former Senator and Ambassador to the U.S. from the Philippines, among many other grandnieces and grandnephews.

Burial was in Pinelawn Memorial Park, Farmingdale, L.I.

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