April 1, 1920 – December 26, 2017 The Rev. Carl Edward Wilke, Sr., who served as an Episcopal priest for more than 50 years, died Dec. 26 at age 97 at his home in Aliso Viejo, California. A funeral mass was celebrated by Rt. Rev. John Taylor and assisted by Rev. Rick Byrum and Rev. […]
September 1, 1946 – December 29, 2017 The Rev. Zelda Kennedy, who until her retirement in 2017 served on the clergy staff of All Saints Church, Pasadena, died Dec. 29 at her home in North Carolina. She is survived by her daughter April Browne, her sister Prescola Johnson (Larry), brother Cyril Miller, Jr. (Renee), and […]
d. November 26, 2017 David Boyle, longtime leader and founding faculty member of St. Margaret’s School, San Juan Capistrano, died Nov. 26 from complications of pneumonia. Boyle, who retired in 2012 as associate headmaster, joined St. Margaret’s as a faculty member in the fall of 1980, the second year of the school. He taught math, […]
October 28, 1949 – November 5, 2017 The Rev. Duc X. Nguyen, founding vicar of the Church of the Redeemer in Garden Grove and a prominent leader in Southern California’s Vietnamese community, died Nov. 5 in Vietnam, where as chairman of the Vietnamese World Christian Fellowship he had traveled to coordinate and speak at a […]
June 23, 1948 – Oct. 10, 2017 The Rev. Lee Marshall Harris, popular chaplain, religion teacher, winning debate team coach and vocational deacon at St. Mark’s Church and School in Upland, died Tuesday, Oct. 10, after a short bout with pancreatic cancer. Harris, a ten-year cancer survivor, had been recently diagnosed with a recurrence of […]
1947 – 2017 The Rev. Karen Ann Wojahn, assisting priest and educator at several Orange County congregations, died Sept. 30, the day after her 70th birthday, at her home in Orange, Calif. In recent months she had been hospitalized with a worsening pulmonary condition. She is survived by her husband of more than 50 years, […]
November 3, 1919 – August 29, 2017 Canon Janice Morrison Overfield Rusack, widow of the late fourth Bishop of Los Angeles, the Rt. Rev. Robert Claflin Rusack, died Aug. 29. She was 97, and had been in declining health in recent years. Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law, Rebecca Rusack Waycott and Richard Waycott; son […]
November 11, 1923 – June 14, 2017 The Rev. Canon Roger Hoffman Wood, former rector of Church of the Epiphany, Los Angeles, and former chaplain at The Episcopal Home, died June 14 at his home in Sierra Madre. He was 93. A service will be held on Wednesday, June 21, 10 a.m. at Church of […]
August 2, 1939 – May 6, 2017 The Rev. Canon Warren Stanley Nyback, rector emeritus of St. Paul’s, Pomona, and a former diocesan chaplain to retired clergy and spouses, died Saturday, May 6, at his home in Pilgrim Place, Claremont. He was 77 and had suffered the effects of Alzheimer’s disease. Survivors include his husband, […]
August 10, 1951 – April 19, 2017 The Rev. Canon Deborah Dunn, rector of St. Peter’s, Santa Maria, and a former deployment officer for the Diocese of Los Angeles, died April 19 at Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, after suffering heart failure and complications of a stroke. She was 65 and had served as rector in […]
