June 14, 1924 – October 10, 2015 Jean Sharley Taylor Lescoe, retired associate editor of the Los Angeles Times and member of All Saints Church, Pasadena, died Oct. 10. She was 91. Lescoe, who used the name Jean Sharley Taylor professionally, assisted the Diocese of Los Angeles and wider Episcopal Church as a two-time judge […]
November 10, 1941 – May 27, 2015 The Rev. Eugenio Ayala-Porfil, former vicar of Holy Family Mission, North Hollywood, and a priest of the Episcopal Church for nearly 50 years, died on May 27 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles. Originally from Puerto Rico, he had served as priest in the Diocese of Los […]
December 7, 1932 – May 22, 2015 Joan Floyd Belliss, wife of the Rev. Richard Guy Belliss, former rector of All Saints Church, Riverside, and St. Anselm’s Church, Garden Grove, died May 22. She was 82. Most recently the couple lived in Corona, where Dick Belliss assists at St. John’s Church. The Rev. Canon John […]
July 25, 1931 – May 7, 2015 Canon Edmonde A. Haddad, former executive director of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, member of St. Bede’s Church, Los Angeles, and longtime member of the Program Group on Communications & Public Affairs and the editorial board of The Episcopal News, died on May 7. He was 83. […]
November 14, 1925 – April 6, 2015 The Rev. Clarke K. Oler – longtime parish associate of All Saints Church, Pasadena, and a former rector of All Saints, Beverly Hills – died April 6 at age 89 after several years of declining health. A celebration of Oler’s life is planned for 2 p.m. on Saturday, […]
December 14, 1947 – March 12, 2015 The Rev. Giles Lee Asbury, retired chaplain at UCLA and former executive director of the Episcopal Church’s Province VIII, died March 12. He recently had entered rehabilitation care following hospitalization for cardiac issues. He was 67. Survivors include his wife, Yvonne Leatherwood Asbury, whom he married in 1984, […]
The Rev. Canon Malcolm Boyd — whose human rights advocacy shaped most of his 30 books including the 1965 best-seller Are You Running With Me, Jesus? — died Feb. 27 while receiving private hospice care in Los Angeles. Severe complications of pneumonia caused Boyd’s death at age 91, said his life partner, Mark Thompson. Boyd […]
March 25, 1927 – October 13, 2014 The Rev. Canon George William Cummings, former secretary of convention, executive director of The Episcopal Home (The Kensington) and rector of The Church of Our Saviour, San Gabriel, died Oct. 13. He was 87. Survivors include his four children, Karen, Richard, Jeffrey and Kalaine; 12 grandchildren and several […]
d. October 5, 2014 Gene Wekall, a lay leader in the Diocese of Los Angeles who brought centering meditation practice to prison inmates, died Oct. 5. Survivors include Wekall’s second wife, the Rev. Ellen Murasaki-Wekall, priest-in-charge at St. Francis’ Chapel, Los Angeles; five children of his first marriage – sons Mike, Tim and Steve Wekall, […]
October 18, 1939 – September 27, 2014 The Rev. Nicholas Radelmiller, OHC, died at Sarah House Hospice in Santa Barbara on Sept. 27. He was 74. Nick was prior of Mount Calvary Monastery in Santa Barbara from 2008 until June of this year. He led the community during the years following the November 2008 Tea […]
