January 30, 1925 – March 4, 2024 The Rev. Ellen Speyer Murasaki-Wekall, Ph.D., priest of the Diocese of Los Angeles, and counselor and spiritual advisor to dozens of its clergy and lay leaders, died March 4. She was 99. Survivors include her son, Kiyoshi Murasaki; grandchildren Christopher, Maria and Daniel Bueno, children of her daughter […]
[The Episcopal News] Marty E. Coleman, whose ministries in peace and justice spanned four decades at Pasadena’s All Saints Church and beyond – died Jan. 29. She was 92 and had lived in recent years at Westminster Gardens in Duarte. Survivors include her daughters, Laurie Edwards Back and Kim Edwards Johnson; six grandchildren and two […]
[The Episcopal News] The Rev. Norman Reid Freeman Jr., a Juilliard-trained, Grammy Award-winning percussionist and timpanist who performed with the New York Pops and New York Philharmonic and with artists ranging from Barbra Streisand to Metallica and Pavarotti, and who popularized jazz vespers while serving congregations in the Connecticut and Los Angeles dioceses, died Feb. […]
April 26, 1938 – January 27, 2024 Canon Thomas Charles Foster, 85, former organist and music director at All Saints’ Church, Beverly Hills, teacher, composer, member of the diocesan Commission on Liturgy & Church Music and director of music for diocesan and churchwide events, died Jan. 27 in Plano, Texas. Foster served most recently at […]
July 30, 1946 – November 28, 2023 The Rev. Canon Peter D. Haynes, 77, former rector of St. Michael & All Angels, Corona del Mar, and dean of Deanery 10, died Nov. 28 after an extended illness. Survivors include his wife, Frances B. Bolles Haynes, and their son, Don. Bishop John Harvey Taylor will officiate […]
May 18, 1944 – October 3, 2023 Mary Dianne Bly Dybvig, 79, wife of the Rev. Ronald Dybvig, died at home surrounded by family on Tuesday, October 3, 2023. With her husband, a Lutheran pastor, Mary Dybvig was a co-founder of Emmanuel Lutheran Church, which now shares facilities and services with St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, […]
[The Episcopal News] Sylvia-Rose Pretorius Mackenzie – widow of the late Bishop Edward Mackenzie, mother of the Rev. Vanessa Mackenzie of L.A.’s Church of the Advent, and grandmother of the Rev. Lester Mackenzie, rector of St. Mary’s, Laguna Beach – died Sept. 3 in her native South Africa at age 92. A former church organist, […]
[The Episcopal News] Canon John M. Hitchcock, 83, a dedicated advocate for children and the former executive director of Hillsides, a family service center and diocesan institution in Pasadena, died peacefully on Oct. 2 with Ida M. Hitchcock, his wife of 57 years, at his side. Survivors also include their sons J. David (Kristin) Hitchcock […]
June 14, 1936 – October 5, 2023 The Rev. John Richard Phalen, priest of the diocese of Los Angeles, died Oct. 5. He was 87. Phalen was an interim priest at several congregations of the diocese, and in recent years has often served at St. Gabriel’s Church, Monterey Park, founded in 1983 as a ministry […]
November 17, 1945 – September 12, 2023 [The Episcopal News – September 13, 2023] The Rev. Canon Virginia “Ginny” Gilbert Erwin, former rector of Trinity Church, Orange, and a former archdeacon for Clergy Deployment and Development of the Diocese of Los Angeles, died Sept. 12 in Banning, where she had been living in retirement since […]
