Archives: Deceased Fathers & Brothers

Father John F. Coffey, MM

Father John F. Coffey died at Providence Hospital, Southfield, Michigan, Saturday, September 25, 1976. Father Coffey had returned to the U.S. on sick leave from the Korea Region in the fall of 1975. He was cleared to return to...

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Father John E. Bergwall, MM

Father John Edward Bergwall died on November 14, 1996 at St. Teresa’s Residence, Maryknoll, New York of complications from Multiple Sclerosis. He was 69 years old and a Maryknoll priest for 37 years. John was born in...

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Father John B. Callan, MM

Father John Callan was born in South Boston on November 24, 1903, the second oldest in a family of six children. The early death of his father marked out John’s boyhood as years of wage-earning and necessitated his...

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Father Jeremiah J. Brennan, MM

Father Jeremiah Brennan died at St. Teresa’s Residence at Maryknoll, New York, in the early evening of Saturday, September 20, 1997. Father Brennan was 76 years old and a Maryknoll priest for 49 years. Jeremiah was born in...

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Father James V. Buttino, MM

Father James Buttino died on July 6 at Maryknoll Residence in Los Altos, California. He was 89 years old and a Maryknoll priest for 60 years. James Vincent Buttino was born in Cortland, New York, on January 30, 1918, son of...

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