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Obituaries

April 27, 2020

Ray Repp dies; wrote ‘Allelu!’, ‘Hear, O Lord,’ ‘I Am the Resurrection’

Ray Repp, the liturgical musician who spearheaded the concept of the folk group-led "guitar Mass" with his "Mass for Young Americans," died April 26 in Palm Springs, California, of complications from cancer. He was 77.
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April 22, 2020

Jesuit Father G. Richard Dimler, Baltimore native and Jesuit emblem researcher, dies at 88

Father G. Richard “Dick” Dimler, a former professor of German literature at what is now Loyola University Maryland and an expert on Jesuit emblems, died April 14. He was 88.
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April 20, 2020

Jesuit Father Francis Moan, former Loyola Blakefield headmaster, dies at 93

Jesuit Father Francis X. Moan, a Baltimore native who eventually became a headmaster at his alma mater, Loyola Blakefield, and later tirelessly worked to improve the lives of refugees in America, died April 17 from complications of COVID-19, his family said. He was 93.
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April 15, 2020

Sister Mary Gerald McCloskey, D.C., spent 56 years serving in Bolivia

A funeral Mass was offered April 6 in the Daughters’ Villa St. Michael Chapel in Emmitsburg for Sister Mary Gerald McCloskey. A Baltimore native who spent 56 of her 66 years as a Daughter of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, including as a missioner in Bolivia, Sister Mary Gerald died April 1, at age...
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April 15, 2020

Sister Maria Cincotta, D.C., taught at Baltimore’s Seton High

A funeral Mass was offered April 4 in the Daughters’ Villa St. Michael Chapel in Emmitsburg for Sister Maria Cincotta, a Daughter of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul who died March 31. She was 88.
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March 25, 2020

Sister Annie Frances Oman, O.S.F., ministered in Baltimore and west coast states

A professed Sister of St. Francis for 71 years, Sister Annie Frances served in the Archdiocese of Baltimore early in her career, ministering in education at the former St. Anthony School, which closed in 2005.
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March 2, 2020

Father Ernesto Cardenal, poet and revolutionary, dies in Nicaragua

Father Ernesto Cardenal, the Nicaraguan poet and revolutionary whose political work earned him a public admonishment from St. John Paul II, died March 1 in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua. He was 95.
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February 24, 2020

Francis Lori, father of Archbishop Lori, dies at 98

Francis Lori, father of Archbishop William E. Lori, died Feb. 24 in Indiana, surrounded by the archbishop and other members of his family.
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February 17, 2020

Sister Dorothy Ann Haney dies at 88

In the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Sister Dorothy taught at St. Bernardine School in West Baltimore from 1957 to 1959.
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February 13, 2020

Father George Coyne, Vatican astronomer from Baltimore, dies at 87

Jesuit Father George V. Coyne, a Baltimore native who led the Vatican Observatory as its director for 28 years, got his start in the field of astronomy as a young student in formation for the priesthood by secretly studying under his blanket, flashlight in hand.
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February 11, 2020

Sister Annella Martin, R.S.M., dies at 90

A funeral Mass for Mercy Sister Annella Martin will be offered at 10 a.m. on Feb. 15 in McAuley Chapel at Mercy Medical Center. Sister Annella died Feb. 6. She was 90 and had served at Mercy Medical Center for nearly 50 years.
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February 7, 2020

Monsignor Aiken, who oversaw transformation of Glyndon parish, dies at 75

Monsignor Lloyd E. Aiken, who spent most of his priesthood at Sacred Heart in Glyndon, the parish of his youth, died at Stella Maris Hospice Feb. 5, a year to the day after informing the people he served that he had been diagnosed with stomach cancer.
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