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Msgr. McMahon Loved to Teach
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Msgr. McMahon |
A Mass of Christian Burial for Msgr. James B. McMahon, pastor emeritus of St. Brendan’s parish, Midwood, will be celebrated on Monday, Nov. 19, at 10:30 a.m. in the chapel at Immaculate Conception Pastoral Center, Douglaston. He died Nov. 13 at the age of 80.
A wake will be held at Stutzmann’s Funeral Home, Queens Village, on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 17 and 18, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.
Born in Manhattan, Father McMahon was raised on Long Island. He attended Cathedral College, Brooklyn, and Immaculate Conception Seminary, Huntington. He was ordained June 6, 1953 by Bishop Thomas E. Molloy at St. James Pro-Cathedral, Brooklyn.
He served as an assistant at St. Patrick, Long Island City, 1953-56 and then was appointed to the faculty of Cathedral College. He taught history on the high school and college level at the Brooklyn campus until 1967 when he became a member of the original faculty at Cathedral College, Douglaston.
In 1987, he was named pastor of St. Brendan’s, where he served until he retired in 1998.
He was named a monsignor in 1989.
He lived in retirement at Bishop Mugavero Residence, Douglaston, until moving to Maria Regina Residence, Brentwood, L.I.
Father Michael Walsh, pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Ozone Park, knew Father McMahon since 1976 when they taught together at Cathedral College, Douglaston.
They became friends and over the years enjoyed dinners and travel together.
“He was a great conversationalist, a very outgoing man, a great traveller,” Father Walsh said. He always had “a big smile and said “come on in” to welcome a friend.
Father McMahon often invited Father Walsh to be a guest lecturer on the Reformation in his history classes. Father McMahon loved teaching, Father Walsh said, and especially the study of American history.
‘Lots of Friends’
Father McMahon was a “great priest” who had “lots of friends” and “cared about everyone,” Father Walsh added. He had many friends among the Sisters of the diocese. When he went to live at Maria Regina Residence, Father McMahon seemed to know half of the Sisters and was very much at home there, Father Walsh said.
There were no immediate survivors. Burial will be in St. Philip Neri Cemetery, Northport, L.I.
A Mass of Christian Burial for Brother James Churchill, OSF, was celebrated Nov. 10 at Our Lady of Angels’ Friary Chapel, Bay Ridge. He died Nov. 7 at the age of 78.
Born in Boston, he attended Boston High School of Commerce. When he entered the Brooklyn Franciscan Brothers in 1951, he was a member of All Saints parish, Roxbury, Mass. He took the religious name of Manuel, professing final vows in 1956.
He taught at St. Joseph’s, Babylon; Our Lady of Good Counsel, Bedford-Stuyvesant; St. Francis Xavier, Park Slope; and Our Lady of Angels, Bay Ridge.
In his retirement years, he developed his talent of painting in watercolors and pastels, for which he received several certificates and awards.
In recent years, he lived at Bishop Ford Friary, Park Slope; Bishop Mugavero Residence, Cobble Hill; St. Nicholas Home, Bay Ridge; and Lutheran Augustana Center, Sunset Park.
Burial was in Holy Rood Cemetery, Westbury, L.I.
Sister Kathleen Francis Taylor, OP, a member of the Sisters of St. Dominic, Amityville, for 43 years, died Nov. 6. She was 61.
Born in Queens, she attended St. Thomas the Apostle School, Woodhaven; Dominican Commercial H.S., Jamaica; and entered the Dominicans in 1964. She then attended St. Albert College, Amityville.
A gifted language arts teacher, she taught at St. Catherine of Siena, Franklin Square; St. Ignatius, Hicksville; Blessed Virgin Mary Help of Christians, Woodside; Our Lady of Hope, Middle Village; and Sacred Heart, East Glendale.
She is survived by her sisters, Kathleen and Rita Taylor of Ronkonkoma, L.I.
Sister Josephine Marie (Rosaria) Franco, C.S.J.B., a native of Brooklyn and a member of the Congregation of St. John the Baptist for 71 years, died Nov. 3 at Providence Rest Nursing Home. She was 91.
Born in Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii parish, Bushwick, she entered the congregation in 1936.
From 1938 to 1961, she taught at Mount St. John, Gladstone, N.J.; St. Lucy’s, Newark; and St. Dominic’s, the Bronx. From 1961 to 1967, she was principal and superior at St. Dominic’s. She was a teacher and principal at St. Roch’s, S.I., 1967-70.
She then taught at St. John Villa Academy elementary school, S.I., 1970-88, and St. Dominic’s, 1988-2007.
Earlier this year, she retired to Mount St. John Convent, Purchase, N.Y.
A Mass of Christian Burial for Deacon Hector Montalvo was celebrated Nov. 14 at Holy Family Church, Park Slope. He died Sunday, Nov. 11.
Auxiliary Bishop Rene A. Valero was the main celebrant of the funeral Mass.
Born in Ensenada, Puerto Rico, he married Ana Concepción on June 27, 1964. They have three children, Hector Jr, Annie and Patricia.
He served at Holy Family as a permanent deacon since he was ordained by Bishop Francis J. Mugavero on April 9, 1983.
During his diaconal ministry, Deacon Montalvo was involved in various ministries such as: visiting the sick, helping families in need, the Cursillo movement, formation of liturgical ministries and others.
Burial was in Calverton Cemetery, L.I.
Japanese Cardinal Stephen Fumio Hamao, retired president of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers, died Nov. 8 in Tokyo at the age of 77.
In a telegram of condolence to the Diocese of Yokohama, where he had served as bishop for almost 20 years, Pope Benedict XVI praised the cardinal for his “devoted witness to the Gospel, his lively concern for the poor and his generous service to the universal church.”
The cardinal had been battling cancer.
His death leaves the College of Cardinals with 178 members, 103 of whom are under age 80 and therefore eligible to vote in a conclave to elect a new pope. After Pope Benedict creates new cardinals Nov. 24, there will be a total of 201 cardinals with 120 of them being potential papal electors.
Cardinal Hamao retired from his Vatican post in 2006, a year after submitting his resignation as required on his 75th birthday.
When he was named a cardinal in 2003, he said the council was an important reminder to the rest of the Church.
“In general, the Catholic Church in the world is interested only in pastoral care through parishes,” he said. “But there are millions of people in the world without a fixed domicile, therefore no parish, and they deserve pastoral care, too.”
He converted to Catholicism at age 16. He said, “God grabbed me and put me in the seminary.”
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Robert Goulet
Pallbearers carry the casket of singer-actor Robert Goulet into the Shrine of the Most Holy Redeemer in Las Vegas before his funeral service Nov. 9. Goulet, whose rich baritone voice made him an instant success when he played Lancelot in the original 1960 Broadway hit “Camelot,” died in a Los Angeles hospital Oct. 30 at age 73.
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