Obituaries

Sister Eileen Niedfield, MMS, a member of the Medical Mission Sisters for 68 years, died March 19 at Regina Residence, Orange, Calif., after a long illness. She was 86.

A native of Brooklyn, she was a graduate of St. Saviour H.S., Park Slope. Previously known as Sister Frederic, she attended Trinity College, Washington, D.C., and earned her M.D. from Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C. From 1955 to 1988, she was chief medical officer and surgeon at the Medical Mission Sisters’ Holy Family Hospital, Mandar, India. She also spent five years at a Medical Mission Sisters’ tertiary care hospital in Patna, India, and two years as zonal medical officer and hospital superintendent at a government hospital in Bhutan.

In 1966, she was certified as a diplomat by the American Board of Surgery and the following year she became a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

In 1993, she returned to the United States and worked as a staff physician at the Veterans’ Clinic in Mission Valley, San Diego, while volunteering with AIDS patients and the homeless. She retired in 2001 and spent her last years at Regina Residence.
Burial was at the Medical Mission Sisters’ North American headquarters in Philadelphia.

A Mass of Christian burial for Albert J. Millus was celebrated March 29 at Holy Innocents Church, Flatbush, where he was a long-time parishioner. He died Monday, March 26, at his home in Brooklyn. He was 81.

The founder of Albert J. Millus and Associates, he was an expert in worker’s compensation law. He was the former dirctor of the New York State Insurance Fund and former bureau chief of the FBI in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

He served in military intelligence and was a graduate of Harvard Law School. He also was a former assistant attorney general in New York State.

He is surived by his wife of 49 years, Rosemary; five sons, Steven, Paul, Robert, Richard and Lawrence, and a daughter, Susan.

A Mass of Christian Burial for Mary Alice Flynn was celebrated March 28 at Our Lady of Angels Church, Bay Ridge.

She was a former member of the staff of the Diocesan Finance Office.

She is survived by her sister, Florence Flynn, a member of the staff of the Diocesan Insurance Office.

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