Archives: Deceased Fathers & Brothers

Father Bernard Francis Meyer died at Phelps Memorial Hospital, North Tarrytown, New York at 7:00 a.m., May 8, 1975, the Feast of the Ascension. Father Meyer was born in Brooklyn, Iowa, February 16 1891, but the family later...

Father Arthur Merfeld died suddenly on Sunday, July 13, 1986, at St. Teresa’s Residence. He was 81 years old. Father Arthur was born in Dougherty, Iowa on May 13, 1905, the fifth child in a family of eleven. He studied at...

Brother Roger J. Mellon died at St. Teresa’s Residence on October 1, 2006. He was 82 years old and a Maryknoll Brother for 51 years. Albert Joseph Mellon, one of three children of Albert J. and Anna Gallagher Mellon, was...

Father Leo J. Melancon died on December 4, 2005 at St. Teresa’s Residence, Maryknoll, New York. He was 98 years old and a Maryknoll priest for 72 years. Leo Joseph Melancon was born on June 26, 1907, in Fall River,...

Father John Patrick Meehan died on Thursday afternoon, October 15, 1998 at Yanji Hospital in Yanji, China. He was 66 years old and a Maryknoll priest for 39 years. He is the first Maryknoller to die and be buried in Chinese soil...