Category Father & Brother: T-Z

Father Roman G. Theisen, MM

Father Roman George Theisen died on September 19, 2002 at St. Teresa’s Residence. He was 75 years old and a Maryknoll priest for 48 years. Roman was born on April 23, 1927, in Detroit, Michigan, son of Roman and Mary...

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Father Leopold H. Tibesar, MM

Leopold H. Tibesar was born in Quincy, Illinois on August 27, 1898. His early education was at St. Francis in Quincy. He spent three years at Kenrick Seminary and in 1919 a year at the Catholic University in Washington, D.C. He...

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Bishop James E. Walsh, MM

Maryknoll’s beloved Bishop James E. Walsh died peacefully at Maryknoll, New York, on July 29th. Completing sixty-six years as a priest and fifty-four as a bishop, he celebrated his ninetieth birthday on April 30th of this...

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Father William H. Woods, MM

Father William H. Woods, who has been a member of our Central American Region since ordination, died on November 20 in the crash of his small plane near Quiche, Guatemala. Four American civilian passengers were also killed....

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Father Philip A. Taggart, MM

Philip A. Taggart was born on January 12, 1893 in Brooklyn, N.Y. and came to Maryknoll in 1914. He was ordained to the priesthood on May 21, 1921. He sailed for the Orient in the autumn of that year, a member of...

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