Archives: Deceased Fathers & Brothers

Father Richard A. Bell, MM

Father Richard Bell died at Mission St. Teresa’s early in the morning of October 26, 2013. He was 86 years old and a Maryknoll priest for 56 years. Richard Aloysius Bell was born on September 9, 1927, in Shanghai, China,...

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Father Ralph F. Christman, MM

Father Ralph Christman died at St. Teresa’s Residence, Maryknoll, New York on March 21, 2011. He was 82 years old and a Maryknoll priest for 54 years. Ralph Frederick Christman was born on November 25, 1928 in New York...

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Father Paul J. Duchesne, MM

Word was received at Maryknoll, N.Y. on the 15th of January, 1983 that Father Paul Duchesne, after forty-four years of dedicated missionary service, had died in Hong Kong, aged 72. Paul was born in Cohoes, N.Y. on the 5th of...

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Father Patrick M. Dunne, MM

Father Martin Dunne died on Christmas morning. On this day of our Saviors birth, Father Marty passed on to eternal life at nine in the morning at Phelps Memorial Hospital. Father Marty was born in New York on February 26, 1908,...

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Father Patrick J. Duffy, MM

Father Patrick J. Duffy (U.S. – Special Society Unit) died peacefully on Sunday,April 13, 1980 at St. Teresa’s Residence, Maryknoll, N.Y. With life and death, these words of Scripture seem most appropriate: “I...

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