Archives: Deceased Fathers & Brothers

Father Patrick J. Donovan, MM

Father Patrick J. Donovan died on January 22, 2011 at St. Teresa’s Residence. He was 83 years old and a Maryknoll priest for 53 years. Patrick Joseph Donovan was born on July 24, 1927, in Bayonne, New Jersey, son of...

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Father Norman Batt, MM

Father Norman Peter Batt died this morning, November 5, 1975, at 7 a. m. in a Buffalo, New York hospital. Since 1970, he had been living in retirement with his blind brother, Louis, at Snyder, New York, but he had assisted in...

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Father Michael J. Duffy, MM

Father Michael J. Duffy died at Maryknoll, New York in the evening of November 16, 1999. He was 66 years old and a Maryknoll priest for 35 years. Michael was born in Montclair, New Jersey, on April 13, 1933, one of seven...

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Father Lionel A. Bouffard, MM

Father Lionel A. Bouffard died on July 9, 2011 at St. Teresa’s. He was 81 years old and a Maryknoll priest for 48 years. Lionel Albert Bouffard, one of eight children of Isaac and Diana Thereoux Bouffard was born on May...

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Father Leo A. Decman, MM

Father Leo Decman died on Thursday, April 5, 1979, at 5:20 a.m., at Severance Hospital in Korea. Born in Joliet, Illinois, on November 7, 1925, Leo was the son of Maria Grahek and Martin Decman, Austrian immigrants to the U. S....

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