Archives: Deceased Fathers & Brothers

Father James R. Weckesser, MM

Father James Weckesser died at Westchester Medical Center on March 21, 2009. He was 80 years old and a Maryknoll priest for 53 years. James Robert Weckesser was born on June 7, 1928 in Rochester, New York, the son of Joseph L....

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Father Leo J. Walter, MM

Father Leo J. Walter (Philippines) died on September 20, 1981 at Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio. When his health failed earlier this year Leo returned to the U.S. in anticipation of his Jubilee celebration. In May,...

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Father Wenceslaus F. Knotek, MM

Father Knotek died at St. Teresa’s Residence in the afternoon of December 14, 1998. He was 84 years old and a Maryknoll priest for 57 years. Wenceslaus was born in Racine, Wisconsin on August 26, 1914, one of twelve...

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Father William T. Knipe, MM

Father William T. Knipe died on August 14, 2009 at St. Teresa’s Residence, Maryknoll, New York. He was 77 years old and a Maryknoll priest for 51 years. William Thomas Knipe was born in the Bronx, New York on October 14,...

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Brother Boniface Klophaus, MM

Werner Kiophaus was born May 7, 1902 in Elberfeld, Germany, in the Archdiocese of Cologne. He came to the United States in 1926 and was naturalized in 1933. In 1945, while a chef at the Immaculate Conception Seminary in...

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