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Obituaries
Sister M. Christina Scanlon, SC, 93, died March 4 at Elizabeth Seton Residence, Wellesley Hills, Mass. She had been a Sister of Charity for 72 years.
From 1960 to 1964, she taught at St. Sylvester’s School, City Line.
Burial was in Mount St. Mary Cemetery, Needham, Mass.
Former baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn, who died in a Jacksonville hospital March 15 at age 80 from respiratory failure following a bout with pneumonia, once said he wanted to be remembered simply “as a good Catholic man.”
In a 1999 interview with The Long Island Catholic, Kuhn said his faith was his anchor throughout his life. “My Church taught me the importance of right and wrong,” he said, explaining that the Church gave him the tools to stay on that path, as well as the sacraments.
Kuhn was a member of several boards including those for the newly organized Catholic Campaign for America, the Catholic Values Investment Trust, the Ave Maria Foundation, the Ave Maria Catholic Values Fund, and he served as chairman of the Greenwood Foundation, a nonprofit organization formed by prominent lay Catholics in 1985 to support agencies that help women with problem pregnancies.
One of Kuhn’s favorite post-baseball activities was serving as what he called “an itinerant preacher,” speaking at Catholic men’s conferences throughout the country.
Redemptorist Father William Biffar, CSsR, 87, died Feb. 27 at St. John Neumann Residence, Saratoga Spring.
A native of College Point, he grew up in St. Fidelis parish, and studied for one year at Cathedral College, Brooklyn, before entering the Redemptorist seminary. He was ordained June 24, 1947.
He served as a U.S. Navy chaplain for 21 years and was a long-time parish priest at Sacred Heart of Jesus, New Smyrna Beach, Fla.
Immediate survivors include his brother, Father John Biffar, a member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary who has been serving in Japan for nearly 50 years,and his sister, Dr. Ada Ryan of Tucson, AZ.
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