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Religious of the Sacred Heart Sister Annice Callahan, who published a number of articles on spirituality, especially on devotion to the Sacred Heart and the spirituality of the Society of the Sacred Heart, and lectured widely on these topics, died Aug. 10 in Atherton. She was 74.

Mercy Sister Sheila Devereux died June 24 at age 92. Born June 25, 1927, in Adair, Iowa, and baptized Patricia Anne, she was influenced by her Mercy teachers in her decision to choose a religious vocation.

Mercy Sister Lillian Murphy, former CEO of Mercy Housing, Inc., died at age 78 on July 25 in San Francisco. Sister Lillian saw that stable housing was the basis of a healthy life and committed her life to creating it for those in need – from single moms living in their cars to mentally ill elders on the streets.

Thirteen months after his ordination, Auxiliary Bishop Robert Christian, OP, passed away in his sleep at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park. Bishop Christian, the seminary’s rector-president, was 70 years old.

Dominican Sister Patricia (Catherine Demetria) Rielly died on June 20, 2019 at St. Martin’s Residence at Mission San Jose. She was 96 years old and 75 years professed as a Dominican Sister of Mission San Jose.

Sister Deborah Marie (Betty) Butcher, OP, died on June 21, 2019, in Glendale. She was 79 years old and professed for 59 years as a Dominican Sister of Mission San Jose.

Sister Eileen Marie (Marlene) Corrigan, OP, died on June 28 at St. Martin Residence, located at the Motherhouse in Fremont. She was 77 years old and professed as a Dominican Sister for 57 years.

Sister Philomena Perreault, formerly known as Marie Therese Perreault, died May 7 at the Dominican Life Center in Adrian, Michigan. She was 94 years old and in the 67th year of her religious profession: 51 years in the Dominican Sisters of Edmonds, Washington, and 16 years in the Adrian Dominican Congregation.

Father Kenan Bernard Osborne, OFM, whose ministry of more than 60 years was devoted to higher theological education and writing, died peacefully in Santa Barbara on April 19.

Sister Marietta McGannon, RSM, died on March 15 at age 87 at Marian Oaks Life Center in Burlingame. The youngest of the five children of Matthew McGannon and Dorothy Richardson McGannon, Eleanor Jane was born in Chicago. The family moved to San Francisco and she attended Holy Name Grammar School, Mercy High School Burlingame, and the Ursuline Academy in San Francisco. She was professed in 1952 taking the religious name Sister Marietta.

Sister Maureen Fenlon, formerly known as Sister Shaun Paul, died March 27 at the Dominican Life Center in Adrian, Michigan. She was 75 old and in the 60th year of her religious profession in the Adrian Dominican congregation.

Sister Hermine Mary Regan, a Daughter of Charity for 85 years, died Feb. 16 at the sisters’ Laboure Residence in Los Altos Hills. She was 108 years old.

Sister Anne Therese Allen, a Sister of St. Joseph of Orange for almost 80 years, entering the congregation in 1940, died Feb. 12. Sister Anne Therese, who attended Notre Dame des Victoires High School, San Francisco, was 97 years old.

Notre Dame Sister Ann Stubbe (Frances Ann), died Jan. 28. She celebrated her 70th year as a Sister of Notre Dame in May 2018. She was 89 years old.

Capuchin Father James Lawrence Cleary died Jan. 15. He was 81 years old. He entered the Capuchin Order on Sept. 4, 1964, and was ordained a priest on Sept. 5, 1970.

Msgr. John R. Pernia, retired pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish, Daly City, died Jan. 11 in Southern California where he moved in 2017 to be closer to family. Msgr. Pernia, 85, celebrated his 60th year as a priest in 2018.

Notre Dame Sister Joan Panella (Marie Angele) died Dec. 30. She was 78 years old. Sister Joan was born in San Francisco and entered the Sisters of Notre Dame in 1958 taking the name Sister Marie Angele. She taught in Notre Dame elementary schools in Salinas, Campbell, Folsom and at Notre Dame High School, Alameda. Sister Joan held a graduate degree and clinical license in social work and additionally served in campus ministry at San Jose State University.

Presentation Sister Constance Madden died Oct. 28 at the Presentation Motherhouse in San Francisco. She was 84 years old and a Sister of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary for 65 years.

Dominican Sister John Martin Fixa died Oct. 27 at St. Elizabeth Convent, Oakland. She was 78 and in the 58th year of her religious profession as a Dominican Sister of Mission San Jose.

Sacred Heart Sister Pamela Margarite Hickey, died October 25 at her congregation’s Oakwood retirement facility in Atherton. She was 87 years old and a Religious of the Sacred Heart for 70 years. Sister Pamela attended Sacred Heart School in Chicago, later earning degrees at her community’s Duchesne College of the Sacred Heart in Omaha, Nebraska, and Loyola University in Chicago and San Diego College for Women.