July 24, 1941 – September 25, 2014 Canon Marie Dolores Gaines Conyer of St. Mark’s Church, Upland — former Standing Committee member, ECW leader, Union of Black Episcopalians board member, Daughters of the King member and advocate for families of murdered children — died Sept. 25 of cancer. She was 73. She died, coincidentally, on […]
July 23, 1950 – July 14, 2014 Robert Lee Johnson, Jr., longtime lay leader at St. John’s ProCathedral, Los Angeles, vice-president of the Corporation of the Diocese and honorary canon of the Cathedral Center of St. Paul, died July 14. He was 63. A funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, July […]
January 11, 1942 – July 1, 2014 The Rev. Catherine Iona Keyser-Mary, a priest canonically resident in the Diocese of Los Angeles and most recently assisting at Church of St. John the Baptist in Aptos, California, died July 1. She was 72. Her husband, the Rev. Pard Keyser, a Presbyterian minister described by her family […]
April 28, 1924 – June 10, 2014 The Rev. Jane Carver Turner, former assistant priest at St. John’s Church (now the ProCathedral) and St. Alban’s Church in Los Angeles, died on June 10 at her home in Eugene, Oregon. She was 90. She was preceded in death by her husband Robert Turner. Survivors include sons […]
March 20, 1924 – May 25, 1014 The Rev. Robert S. Spicer-Smith, a longtime priest of the Diocese of Los Angeles, died May 25 in Glendale after hospitalization in recent months. He was 90. He is survived by loving friends and family. A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 31, […]
August 4, 1919 – May 19, 2014 The Rev. John Julian Hancock, former vicar of the Church of the Reconciliation, Los Angeles (now closed), died May 19 at Olympia Hospital in Los Angeles. He was 94. In retirement he assisted at St. Bede’s Church, Los Angeles, serving from 1989 to 2006. Before his tenure at […]
January 14, 1937 – March 28, 2014 The Rev. Joseph William Frazier, vicar of St. Columba’s Episcopal Church in Big Bear Lake and member of the Chad Mitchell Trio, died in his sleep the morning of March 28. He was 77 and had been in ill health for some months. Survivors include his partner of […]
November 12, 1913 – March 9, 2014 The Rev. Ward Foster DeBeck, former vicar of St. Thomas’ Church, Hacienda Heights, and rector of St. Mark’s Church, Downey, died on March 9, 2014 in Keizer (near Salem), Oregon, where he had lived in retirement since 1979. He was 100 years old. DeBeck served from 1980 to […]
d. March 2, 2014 David Gell, organist and minister of music at Trinity Church, Santa Barbara, for the past 30 years, died suddenly on Sunday, March 2. He was 70. He is survived by his wife Carolyn. A memorial service was held at Trinity Church, 1500 State Street, Santa Barbara, on March 15. Gell was […]
June 29, 1926 – November 24, 2013 The Rev. Norman Herriman Boyd, most recently assistant at St. Peter’s Church, San Pedro, died peacefully in his sleep on Nov. 24. He was 87. Services were held on Dec. 15 at St. Peter’s Church. Boyd had served at St. Peter’s in various capacities since 1983. He was […]
