Clergy Necrology
The faithful of the Diocese of Spokane are requested to remember in the charity of their prayers the souls of these departed bishops, priests, and deacons. Following are their names and dates of death:
Jan. 1, 1990 Fr. Adrian Vander Hayden
Jan. 1, 2018 Wynn Webster*
Jan. 2, 1934 Fr. F.A. Becker
Jan. 3, 1960 Fr. Raymond Klemmer
Jan. 3, 1962 Fr. Gerald Feisst
Jan. 6, 1940 Fr. John P. Blake
Jan. 7, 1912 Fr. Emile Kauten
Jan. 8, 2007 Dcn. Vincent Gerber
Jan. 9, 1960 Fr. John E. Lyons
Jan. 10 1988 Msgr. Hugo Pautler
Jan. 10, 1991 Fr. Albert Austen
Jan. 11, 2009 Fr. James Mangan
Jan. 13, 1999 Bp. Lawrence H Welsh
Jan. 14, 1936 Fr. Anthony S. Fischer
Jan. 14, 1957 Bp. Robert I. Armstrong
Jan. 15, 2017 Dcn. Daniel Farrell
Jan. 16, 1937 Fr. Charles McAleer
Jan. 18, 1901 Fr. Peter Van Holderbeke
Jan. 20, 2007 Fr. Leonard Forsmann
Jan. 23, 2016 Dcn. Richard Malone
Jan. 21, 1931 Fr. Denis A. Cronin
Jan. 25, 2012 Dcn. Donald Bentley
Jan. 31, 1947 Fr. Carl Philipp
Feb. 5, 1884 Bp. John Baptiste Brouillet
Feb. 7, 1937 Bp. Augustine Schinner
Feb.10, 2009 Fr. Sean Donnelly
Feb.11, 2001 Fr. Edward Kowrach
Feb. 11, 2017 Dcn. Alvin Toulou
Feb. 12, 1978 Fr. Norman N. Triesch
Feb. 12, 2002 Fr. Maurice Helfenstein
Feb. 15, 1963 Fr. Joseph Fleck
Feb. 15, 2007 Fr. Joseph Pash
Feb. 17, 2007 Dcn. Walter Weid
Feb. 18, 1972 Fr. PauI M. Georgen
Feb. 20, 1954 Fr. Joseph Leclerc
Feb. 20, 1967 Fr. Lawrence A. Noldin
Feb. 22, 1937 Fr. C.A. Neilan
Feb. 22, 1968 Fr. Allan H. Amirault
Feb. 25, 1887 Bp. Augustine M. Blanchet
Feb. 27, 1935 Fr. James F. Barrett
Feb. 28 2013 Msgr. William Van Ommeren
Mar. 6, 1971 Fr. Daniel Kelley
Mar. 9, 1936 Fr. Emil Frederick
Mar. 13, 1999 Fr. Anton Flour
Mar. 14, 2016 Fr. William Dugan
Mar. 18, 1918 Fr. Louis I. Kusters
Mar. 19, 1990 Fr. Cyril Feisst
Mar. 19, 2011 Dcn. Roy Dahl
Mar. 20, 1995 Fr. Jerry MacEvilley
Mar. 20, 2011 Fr. Edward Caffrey
Mar. 22, 1978 Fr. Paul D. Reilly
Mar. 26, 2011 Fr. Arnold Schoffelmeer
Mar. 27, 1973 Fr. D. Brendan O’Connor
Mar. 30, 1938 Fr. J.J. Glaser
April 2, 1957 Msgr. Theophilus Pypers
April 5, 1927 Fr. John J. Barry
April 4, 2018 Dcn. Robert King
April 7, 2006 Fr. James Grant
April 9, 1994 Fr. Terry Franklin
April 10, 1990 Msgr. Stephen Buckley
April 12, 1942 Fr. John L. Campion
April 13, 2011 Dcn. Cary Heth
April 14, 1970 Fr. William Schmitz
April 18, 1931 Msgr. Henry Delchman
April 18, 2002 Fr. James McGreevy
April 19, 2007 James O’Malley*
April 19, 2009 Fr. Thomas Mele
April 20, 1936 Fr. Francis Jones
April 22, 1991 Fr. Bernard Schiller
April 28, 1996 Fr. Rudolph Gerhart
April 29, 1929 Fr. H.J. Van de Ven
April 30, 2013 Dcn. George Lukach
May 1, 1938 Msgr Aloysius Verhagen
May 5, 1938 Fr. Nicholas Mertz
May 5, 1992 Fr. Gerard Hanna
May 10, 2012 Dcn. William Sando
May 14, 2014 Dcn. Jack Crandall
May 15, 2011 Msgr. Art Mertens
May 22, 1970 Fr. Ambrose Meyer
May 25, 1929 Fr. F.X. August Stemper
May 26, 2000 Dcn. Arthur Leath
May 26, 2001 Fr. George McCabe
May 26, 2006 Fr. William Brennan
May 31, 2015 Fr. John O’Brien
June 5, 1931 Fr. Oscar R. Balducci
June 5, 1941 Fr. John L. Kennedy
June 5, 1961 Fr. William B. Bender
June 18, 1883 Abp. Francis N. Blanchet
June 22, 1933 Fr. John Cronin
June 23, 1970 Fr. Wilfred.J. Druffel
June 23, 1974 Fr. Patrick H. Moffatt
June 23, 2001 Fr. Bernard Barry
June 24, 1956 Fr. John B. Moskopp
July 1, 1927 Fr. Lco W. Ferland
July 3, 2020 Fr. Charles Skok
July 9, 1961 Fr. Pius Mutter
July 10, 1967 Fr. John R. Walsh
July 10, 1935 Fr. John Condon
July 11, 1974 Fr. Armand P. Laverdiere
July 11, 1982 Joseph H. Pineau*
July 11, 1988 Fr.Charles DePiere
July 12, 1982 Fr. Theodoric M. Delong
July 13, 1946 Fr. Herman Eitel
July 16, 1981 Fr. Aloysius Breznik
July 22, 1999 Fr. John O’Dea
July 23, 2014 Fr. Clifford Hulings
July 27, 1871 Bp. Modeste Demers
July 27, 1914 Fr. John J. Gribbin
July 27, 2005 Msgr. John Donnelly
July 29, 1938 Fr. William J. Metz
July 31, 1884 Fr. Thomas Duffy
Aug. 4, 1953 Msgr. John J. Callanan
Aug. 4, 1994 Fr. John Prince
Aug. 5, 1994 Fr. Marvin Lavoy
Aug. 6, 1934 Fr. Peter Leroux
Aug. 8, 1973 Fr. Carl A. Bauer
Aug. 8, 1983 Fr. William L. Kelley
Aug. 8, 1988 Fr. Joseph Brunnner
Aug. 13, 1962 Fr. Thomas L. Cooney
Aug. 16, 2007 Dcn. Stephen Barnufsky
Aug. 17, 1967 Bp. William Condon
Aug. 21, 2006 Fr. Eugene Glatt
Aug. 24, 1991 Fr. Joseph DaLio
Aug. 26, 2000 Dcn. David F. Yenko
Sept. 3, 1925 Fr. Thomas J. Purcell
Sept. 4, 2009 Dcn. Rodney Popiel
Sept. 5, 2003 Fr. Paul Wenning
Sept. 6, 2002 Dcn. Dale Shaeffer
Sept. 6, 2013 Dcn. Magdaleno Casillas
Sept. 8, 1890 Fr. Peter A. Poaps
Sept. 10, 1986 Fr. Anthony Farrelly
Sept. 13, 1956 Joseph P. Knect*
Sept. 13, 1992 Msgr. John Coleman
Sept. 13, 1927 Fr. John de Kanter
Sept. 14, 2009 Dcn. Francis Mackin
Sept. 15, 2017 Dcn. John Sicilia
Sept. 17, 2010 Dcn. Derwood Braungardt
Sept. 20, 1996 Fr. Eugene Mulligan
Sept. 21, 2014 Fr. J. Severyn Westbrook
Sept. 23, 1989 Fr. Robert O’Neil
Sept. 24, 1951 Fr. Raymond A. Riedner
Sept. 25, 1955 Bp. Charles D. White
Sept. 25, 1970 Fr. Arthur A. Joda
Sept. 26, 2006 Dcn. John Gress
Sept. 26, 1993 Msgr. Oakley O’Connor
Sept. 26, 1991 Dcn. Max Chapman
Sept. 29, 2015 Dcn. Thomas Heafey
Oct. 4, 2001 Dcn. Gerald McKenzie
Oct. 9, 2014 Dcn. Richard Skok
Oct. 12, 2013 Msgr. James Ribble
Oct. 13, 2008 Fr. John Rompa
Oct. 14, 1926 Fr. James G. Cunningham
Oct. 14, 2009 Msgr. David Rosage
Oct. 15, 1998 Fr. N.F. Kelley
Oct. 16, 1906 Fr. Michael Flohr
Oct. 16, 1948 Fr. Patrick Aloysius Flavin
Oct. 21, 1957 Fr. George Meiers
Oct. 22, 1986 Bp. Bernard J. Topel
Oct. 23, 2000 Dcn. Archie Arnold
Oct. 24, 1977 Fr. Roy E. Thelen
Oct. 24, 1980 Msgr. John Fahy
Oct. 27, 1942 Fr. W.V. Fitzgerald
Oct. 28, 2003 Fr. John J. Kelley
Oct. 28, 2017 Fr. John Birk
Oct. 30, 1936 Fr. William Chaput
Oct. 30, 1998 Fr. Victor Breznikar
Oct. 31, 2009 Fr. Ralph Schwemin
Nov. 3, 1903 Bp. Jean-Bapiste. Brondel
Nov. 3, 2011 Fr. George Morbeck
Nov. 3, 2018 Fr. George Haspedis
Nov. 6, 1922 Fr. James L. Frei
Nov. 12, 1920 Fr. Dominic McGowan
Nov. 13, 1957 Fr. Edmund Jordan
Nov. 13, 2008 Fr. John Rompa
Nov. 14, 1920 Fr. Timothy O’Connor
Nov. 17, 1932 Fr. John A. Faust
Nov. 17, 2002 Fr. Terence Tully
Nov. 18, 1978 Fr. Paul Jansen
Nov. 20, 2012 Fr. John Sands
Nov. 25, 1922 Fr. Aloysius De Malsche
Nov. 27, 1910 Fr. William Dwyer
Nov. 29, 1951 Fr. Herman Loeffler
Dec. 5, 1995 Dcn. Charles Breslin
Dec. 8, 1960 Fr. Raymond McDonald
Dec. 14, 2012 Dcn. Jack Back
Dec. 16, 2017 Msgr. Frank J. Bach
Dec. 18, 1998 Dcn. Don Schuster
Dec. 19, 1961 Fr. Murtaugh P. Schiel
Dec. 21, 1954 Fr. Joseph Stang
Dec. 24, 2000 Fr. Cornelius Verdoorn
Dec. 25, 1932 Bp. Edward J. O’Dea
Dec. 26, 1895 Bp. Aegidius Junger
Dec. 26, 1923 Fr. E. Adolph Nowicki
Dec. 27, 1927 Fr. Anthony Joehren
Dec. 27, 2004 Fr. William Hanley
Dec. 30, 1954 Fr. John Baptist Hermann
Dec. 31, 1931 Msgr. Aloysius Meuwese
Dec. 31, 2010 Dcn. Gerald Grewe
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord. And let perpetual light shine upon them. Amen.
*Indicates a priest or deacon removed from ministry