Brother Charles Spent Almost

50 Years at Loughlin

Brother Charles Felix Guglielmo, FSC, died May 13 at Riverview Hospital in River Bank, N.J.

Brother Charles had been the “dean” of the LI-NE Brothers, in his 90th year of life. He was a member of the Christian Brothers for 70 years.

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Brother Charles Felix, FSC

Born in Providence, R.I., he spent almost 50 years at Bishop Loughlin Memorial H.S., Brooklyn, where he taught business subjects and coordinated the audio-visual room.

An avid photographer, he also worked in diocesan educational television during the 1960s and he coordinated darkroom activities at The Tablet from 1977 to 2000.

In 2005, he moved to De La Salle Hall in Lincroft.
A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated May 16. Interment took place May 17 at the Brothers’ Center in Narragansett, R.I.

Sister M. Susan McMenamin, IHM, of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, died on May 7, at Marian Community Hospital in Scranton. She was 92.

She entered the IHM Congregation in 1932 and made her final profession of vows on August 1, 1938.

She served as a music teacher at St. Ephrem Elementary School, Dyker Heights, 1975-1976, and at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Elementary School, Forest Hills, 1976-1988.

Sister Margaret Dowling, SC, a gifted educator, advocate for justice and leader in her religious congregation – the Sisters of Charity of New York – died peacefully in her sleep May 8 at age 89.

A native of Brooklyn, she graduated from Our Lady of Good Counsel School, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Bishop McDonnell H.S. before entering the congregation in 1934, and taking the religious name of Sister Claire Marie.

After teaching for almost 30 years, she became director of Elementary Curriculum in the Office of Superintendent of Schools for the Archdiocese of New York between 1962 and 1967.

She also served in leadership positions within her own religious community. In 1950, she was named local superior, a ministry she held for 17 years. From 1966 to 1971, Sister served as general councilor of her Congregation’s administration. In 1971, she was elected president of the Sisters of Charity of New York and served two full terms, until 1979.

She returned to more grassroots service and spent the next two years in pastoral ministry in Guatemala.

Sister Margaret served for six years on the board of Network, a national organization founded by women religious to lobby for and monitor human rights legislation in Congress. She also was coordinator for Network in lower New York State for 15 years and served as a human rights advocate with the Intercommunity Center for Justice and Peace in Manhattan for eight years.

At age 72, she began a 16-year ministry as a spiritual director, giving retreats, while still continuing as an advocate for human rights in Central America.
 

Sister Mary Viator Comas, OSF, a member of the Franciscan Sisters of Alleghany for 70 years, died May 4 at St. Elizabeth Motherhouse in Alleghany, NY.
A native of Forest Hills, she professed her final vows in 1943.

She worked in hospital administration in Florida, upstate New York, and Manhattan and served as a provincial and director of the Sisters’ retirement program.

Interment was in St. Bonaventure Cemetery, Alleghany.
James Barrow, the FBI’s first African-American special agent, died March 20 in Tampa, Fla. He was 69. A former member of St. Martin of Tours parish, Amityville, L.I., he was a graduate of Cathedral College, Brooklyn.
The funeral Mass was celebrated in Tampa. Interment was in Clearwater, Fla.

W. King Pound, who obtained national ads for Catholic newspapers and magazines during most of his 57-year career in advertising, died May 8 at his home in Baltimore. He was 82.

A memorial service was to take place May 15 at Loudon Park Cemetery in Baltimore, with interment to follow July 3 at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

Pound started his career in the Catholic press at The Catholic Review, Baltimore archdiocesan newspaper, and helped found the Catholic Standard newspaper in the Washington Archdiocese in 1951. He served as advertising manager and later general manager of the Washington newspaper.

Pound was a tank commander under Gen. George Patton during the Battle of the Bulge.
Pound was instrumental in founding the Catholic Markets Newspapers Association, organized to obtain national advertising for all of the Catholic newspapers in the country.
He is survived by his wife of 60 years, the former Patricia McDonald; two sons and two daughters and their spouses; 10 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and a sister.

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