August 8, 1929 – July 15, 2021 The Rev. John Paul Fuller died July 15 in hospice care at his home in Oxnard, where he served from 1971 to 1991 as rector of All Saints Church. He was 91, and had been in failing health for several years. A service will be held at 9 […]
August 27, 1930 – June 10, 2021 The Rev. Gary Jay Adams, former rector of St. Edmund’s Church, San Marino, and Church of the Messiah, Santa Ana, died June 10 in Carson City, Nevada. He was 90. Survivors include his wife of 72 years, Marguerite (Peggy) Goff Adams, and four of their children – Philip […]
September 24, 1939 – June 15, 2021 The Rev. Canon Richard Van Horn, assisting priest at St. Mary’s Church (Mariposa), Los Angeles, and president emeritus of Mental Health America of Los Angeles-Long Beach, died June 15. He was 81. Survivors include his wife of 35 years, Kay Ferber Van Horn; son Kinter; grandchildren Skyler, Aidan, […]
October 29, 1940 – May 21, 2021 The Rev. James Byron David Corbett, once rector of St. Andrew’s Church, Ojai, and a former diocesan archivist, died May 21 in Portland, Oregon, where he had lived since his retirement in 2008. He was 80 and had been in ill health for some time. Survivors include his […]
The Rt. Rev. J. Jon Bruno – who as bishop of the six-county Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles from 2002 to 2017 widened the church’s welcome of all people by prophetically narrowing gaps created by race, gender, sexual orientation, and economic disadvantage – died April 23 at his home in La Quinta, Calif. He was […]
Bishop John Harvey Taylor issued the following notice to the people of the Diocese of Los Angeles on April 24, 2021. November 17, 1946 – April 23, 2021 With deep sadness yet the assurance of resurrection in Christ, I write to inform you that the Rt. Rev. J. Jon Bruno, former bishop of the Episcopal […]
August 25, 1938 – March 25, 2021 The Rev. Canon Jonathan Won, retired vicar of St. Francis’ Church, Norwalk, and one of the first Korean priests to serve in the Diocese of Los Angeles, died March 25 in Portland, Oregon, after a long illness. He was 82. Survivors include his wife of 49 years, Gemma […]
Charles Sacquety November 20, 1932 – April 4, 2021 The Rev. Canon Charles William Sacquety Jr., rector emeritus of St. Wilfrid of York Church, Huntington Beach (1978-1998), died April 4, Easter Day, in hospice care. He was 88. “Canon Sacquety was an institution builder, a justice seeker, and a pastor extraordinaire,” said Bishop John Harvey […]
October 7, 1933 – March 16, 2021 The Rev. Thomas Haines Schultz, monk of the Order of the Holy Cross, died March 16 at a nursing home in Santa Barbara, where he was a resident of OHC’s St. Mary’s Retreat House since 2008. He was 87 and canonically resident in the San Francisco-based Diocese of […]
June 1, 1931 – March 13, 2021 Canon Jenny Ladefoged – a longtime lay leader in the Diocese of Los Angeles and the wider Episcopal Church – died March 13 of complications from open heart surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She was 89 and in recent years resided in Nashville, Tenn. Ladefoged is predeceased […]
