Sister Marie Salamone, OP, a member of the Sisters of St. Dominic, Amityville, for 45 years, died May 23. She was 63.

Born in Flushing, she attended Dominican Commercial H.S., Jamaica, and entered the order in 1961 from St. Ann’s parish, Flushing, taking the religious name of Sister Paul Dominic.

Sister Salamone

She taught at Our Lady of Guadalupe, Bensonhurst, 1962-68; St. Nicholas H.S., Williamsburg, 1968-76; and Dominican Commercial H.S., 1976-79.

From 1979 to 1980, she was principal of St. Pancras School, Glendale, and from 1980 to 1983, she was principal at Sacred Heart, East Glendale.

She later taught at St. Agnes Academic H.S., College Point, 1983-88, before being principal at Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Jamaica, 1988-90, and American Martyrs, Bayside, 1990-95.

In 1995, she returned to Dominican Commercial to serve as secretary until the school closed in 1998. For the next year, she oversaw the conversion of the school building to the Jamaica Center. In 1999, she moved to St. Catherine of Sienna, St. Albans, and acted as secretary until 1996. Earlier this year, she relocated to Carlin Hall in Amityville because of illness.

She is survived by her mother, Pauline, of Queen of Peace Residence, Queens Village, and her brother, Gasper, of Greenlawn, N.Y.

Father Quintin A. Neyland, OFM, 88, a professed Franciscan friar for 65 years, died May 30 at St. Anthony Friary, Butler, N.J.

Born in Brooklyn as Thomas, he attended P.S. 3, St. Christopher’s School, and Baldwin Public H.S., all Baldwin, L.I.; and St. Joseph’s Seminary, Callicoon, N.Y. He was accepted into the Franciscan Order in 1940, professed solemn vows in 1944, and was ordained a priest June 9, 1946 by Archbishop Amleto G. Cicognani at Mount St. Sepulchre Friary Church, Washington, D.C.
He served in parishes in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and at St. Francis of Assisi, Manhattan, 1976-98. From 1998 to 2003, he lived in retirement at St. Francis of Assisi.

Retired Bishop Michael J. Dudick, who served as bishop of the Byzantine Diocese of Passaic, N.J., for 27 years, died May 30 at the Rest Haven nursing facility in Schuylkill Haven. He was 91.

He was the first chancellor of the Passaic Diocese when it was formed in 1963. He was appointed by Pope Paul VI to be its second bishop Aug. 21, 1968.

During his tenure as bishop, over 30 new parishes, missions and monasteries were established, and several men were ordained to the priesthood and diaconate.
Bishop Dudick was also a familiar figure at the annual March for Life activities in Washington, D.C.

A Divine Liturgy with the office of Christian burial was June 5 at St. Michael’s Cathedral in Passiac.

Interment was June 6 at Mount St. Macrina Cemetery, Uniontown.

James Farrell, the father of Father Dennis Farrell, pastor of Resurrection parish, Gerritsen Beach, died on May 9.
He died one week after celebrating his 65th wedding anniversary with his wife, Eleanor.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at Holy Name of Jesus Church, Windsor Terrace, on May 12.

Fr. McLaughlin Dies Two Days After 45th Anniversary

Father Charles C. McLaughlin, retired parochial vicar at St. Anselm’s, Bay Ridge, died June 4 at Lutheran Medical Center, two days after his 45th anniversary of ordination. He was 70.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated June 7 at St. Anselm’s.

Father McLaughlin

A native of Manhattan, he was born Aug. 6, 1936. He attended Cathedral College and Immaculate Conception Seminary, Huntington. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 2, 1962 by Bishop Bryan J. McEntegart at St. James Cathedral-Basilica, Downtown Brooklyn.

He served as an assistant at Fourteen Holy Martyrs, Bushwick, summer of 1962; Our Lady of Victory, Bedford-Stuyvesant, 1962-1964; Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Jamaica, 1964-1978; St. Joan of Arc, Jackson Heights, 1978-1981; and St. Vincent de Paul, Williamsburg, 1981-82.

He was pastor of St. Vincent de Paul, 1982-85, and administrator of St. Charles Borromeo, Brooklyn Heights, 1985-96. He served as parochial vicar at St. Anselm’s, 1996-2005, when he retired with senior priest status and continued in residence there.

Father McLaughlin was a member of the Priests’ Purgatorial Society.

Retired Bishop Thomas V. Daily was the main celebrant of the funeral Mass. His classmate and friend, Msgr. Patrick Armshaw, pastor of St. Francis of Assisi, Greenlawn, N.Y., was the homilist. Special concelebrants included Msgrs. John O’Brien, Thomas A. Graham, T. Peter Ryan and Father William Hoppe.

“Technically, he retired two years ago but he never put it into practice,” noted Msgr. Michael J. Phillips, pastor of St. Anselm’s.

Msgr. Phillips, who was two years ahead of Father McLaughlin in the seminary, remembered him as an avid reader, who enjoyed training young men and women for the parish’s junior lector program.

“He was a great man, very kind. People loved him and his homilies. He was a great historian and he could incorporate that into his homilies,” Msgr. Phillips added.
Burial for Father McLaughlin was in St. John’s Cemetery, Middle Village.

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