Sister Anna O’Leary, GNSH, 88, formerly Sister St. Edmund, died at St. Joseph’s Manor, Meadowbrook, PA, on April 13, in her 72nd year of religious life.

During her years of ministry, she served at St. Joan of Arc and Blessed Sacrament schools, both Jackson Heights, and at St. Leo’s, Corona.

She also taught in Ogdensburg and Buffalo, NY, as well as in Lowell, MA and Atlanta, GA. When she moved out of the classroom in 1983 she continued to be available to the children when substitute teaching or assisting in the library at Blessed Sacrament School. In 2000, failing health necessitated her retirement to the Motherhouse in Yardley, PA. She moved to St. Joseph’s Manor in 2002.

A funeral Mass was celebrated April 17 in Sacred Heart Chapel, Grey Nuns Motherhouse, Yardley, PA, with interment in Resurrection Cemetery in Bensalem, PA.

Sister M. Rose Vincent Reilly, OP, died April 25 in Siena Hall Infirmary, Dominican Convent, Sparkill, NY.

From 1974 to 1987, she was assistant principal at Our Lady of Perpetual Help School, Richmond Hill.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated in Sparkill.

Onofrio Miceli, the father of Father Vincent Miceli, pastor of St. Fortunata’s parish, Brooklyn, died April 26.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated May 1 at Most Precious Blood Church, Astoria. Burial was in St. Raymond’s Cemetery, the Bronx.

William F. Whelan, brother of Father Robert J. Whelan, pastor of St. Augustine parish, Park Slope, died April 28.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated May 2 at St. Camillus Church, Rockaway Beach.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated May 3 at St. Anselm’s Church, Bay Ridge, for Edward Carroll, the father of Mary Clavin, an active member of The Cathedral Club of Brooklyn.

Among the survivors is Mr. Carroll’s son-in-law Peter Clavin, director of Clavin and Sons Funeral Home in Bay Ridge.

Retired Auxiliary Bishop Walter J. Schoenherr of Detroit, 87, died of natural causes April 27 in the Detroit suburb of Livonia.

Hailing from a long-established Detroit family – Schoenherr Road in Detroit and in its eastern suburbs was named for his ancestors – Bishop Schoenherr was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Detroit in 1945. He was appointed an auxiliary bishop in 1968. For nearly two decades, he was bishop for the south region of the archdiocese. He retired from active ministry in 1995.

Bishop Schoenherr, as a monsignor, served as a chaplain with the 1st Brigade of the Michigan National Guard’s 48th Infantry Division, and was named a major. During the Detroit riots in 1967, he celebrated Masses for members of the military sent in to quell the city’s violence.

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The first Sisters of St. Joseph assigned to the faculty of The Mary Louis Academy, Jamaica Estates, are pictured with Msgr. Allan T. Pendleton of the Diocesan Building Commission and Father Roger Munson, CP, pastor of Immaculate Conception parish, Jamaica Estates. A new book tells the 71-year-old history of The Mary Louis Academy. See The Editor’s Space