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Rev. James Brennan, C.Ss.R., of the Stella Maris community, Timonium, Maryland, died on January 20, 2023, age 84 and seven months.

Rev. Edward Joseph Gray, C.Ss.R., of the Saint Alphonsus Villa community, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, died on November 27, 2022, age 90 and three months.

Father Francis Sullivan, C.Ss.R., of the St. John Neumann community at Stella Maris, Timonium, MD, died on November 17, 2022, age 88 and seven months.

Father Kevin Milton, C.Ss.R., a member of the St. Alphonsus Villa community at New Smyrna Beach, Florida, died August 9, 2022, at the age of 81 years and 4 months.

Father Patrick John McGarrity, C.Ss.R., a member of the St. John Neumann community at Stella Maris, Timonium, Maryland, died May 27, 2022, at the age of 86 years and 5 months. 

Rev. Frank Nelson, C.Ss.R., a member of the St. John Neumann community at Stella Maris, Timonium, Maryland, died on May 16, 2022, age 84 and three months. 

Brother De Sales Zimpfer, of the St. John Neumann Residence, Stella Maris, Timonium, Maryland died on May 1, 2022, three days ahead of his 87th birthday. 

Father Arthur Gildea, of the community at the St. Alphonsus Villa, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, died March 29, 2022, age 80 and one month. 

Father John P. Lavin, aka “Padre Juan,” of the community at the St. John Neumann Residence, Stella Maris, Timonium Maryland, died February 12, 2022, age 80 and nine months.

Father Ronald E. Bonneau, C.Ss.R., of the St. Mary’s community, Annapolis, Maryland, died on November 9, 2021, aged 76 and eleven months. Born on December 12, 1944, in Hanover, New Hampshire, he was the son of Edward and Helen.

Father Carl W. Hoegerl, a member of the St. John Neumann community at Stella Maris, Timonium, Maryland, died on November 4, 2021, age 98. Carl W. Hoegerl was born October 10, 1923, in Harmonsburg, Pennsylvania, near “metropolitan Meadville,” and was schooled in St. Peter’s Parish in Conneautville.

Father Richard K. Poetzel , a member of the St. John Neumann community at Stella Maris, Timonium, Maryland, died on September 24, 2021, age 85 and ten months. He was born November 1, 1936 in Baltimore, Maryland, to Carl and Magdalen (Weber).

Thomas Gerard Sullivan, C.Ss.R., a member of the St. John Neumann Community in Timonium, Maryland, died on August 11, 2021, at age 75. Born in Brighton, Massachusetts on August 5, 1946, to James Michael and Anna (Sheehan), he was baptized on August 18, 1946, and confirmed on March 24, 1958, at the Redemptorist parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Mission Church) in Boston, where he was enrolled in the grammar school.

Jean-Jacques “Jacky” Merlian, a member of the Redemptorists’ English-speaking Region, died on July 19, 2021, age 39 and two months. Born in Grand Bois, Ouest, Haiti, on May 22, 1982, to Jean and Marguerite (Pierristal), he was baptized on February 12, 1983, at St. Pierre de Grand-Bois.

The Rev. James Howard Geiger of the St. John Neumann community, Stella Maris, Timonium, Maryland, died July 15, 2021, aged 87 and seven months. Father Geiger is predeceased by his brother and fellow Redemptorist William Geiger who died in 2007.

Father Dennis Maurice Foley, C.Ss.R., of the San Alfonso Retreat House community, West End, New Jersey, died on June 6, 2021, at age 87 and five months. Born in Brooklyn, New York, January 16, 1934, he was the son of John and Mary (Glynn) Foley.

Thomas Jeremiah Barrett of the St. John Neumann Residence, Stella Maris, Timonium, Maryland, died on February 15, 2021, at age 79. Born in Brooklyn on January 6, 1942, to Thomas and Margaret (Corkery), he was baptized February 1, 1942 and confirmed November 17, 1952 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Brooklyn.

Joseph Timothy Freund of the Saint Alphonsus Villa Community, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, died on December 27, 2020, age 87. Born December 22, 1933, in Manhattan, he was the son of Francis J. and Julia (Rein).

TOM SLYMON died Sunday, December 13 from complications of cancer. Tom worked as a Redemptorist priest in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. He was a very energetic missionary. He helped build a chapel in a campo of Fajardo and a center for training rural farmers, Centro Padre Julio, in Las Matas de Farfan.

Thomas Anthony Burke was born on January 2, 1956 in Brooklyn, NY. The son of William and Mary (Murphy), he was baptized (January 22, 1956) at St. Francis Xavier Church, Brooklyn and confirmed (April 15, 1967) at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Brooklyn.