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Father Stephen F. Pisano, SJ, emeritus professor of Old Testament exegesis and textual criticism at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome, died in the Jesuit infirmary in Rome Oct. 7 after a brief illness.

Sister Thibault, a Sister of St. Joseph of Orange for 71 years, died Oct. 7 at the community’s Regina Residence in the Orange.

Sister Dorothy Simpson, SNJM (Sister M. Catherine Regina) died Sept. 15 at Mercy Center in Oakland. She was 89 and celebrated 69 years of profession as a Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary.

Sister Catherine Cahur, SC, died in San Francisco on Sept. 22 at the age of 82. She was a Sister of Charity of Cincinnati for 64 years.

Marianist Brother John Samaha died Sept. 27, 2019. Born to Lebanese immigrant parents in San Francisco on Dec. 5, 1930, Brother John entered the Marianist Novitiate in Beacon, N.Y., in August 1948, professing first vows in 1949, and perpetual vows in 1953.

Sister Patricia Marie Walsh, OP, died at St. Martin residence in Fremont on Sept. 16. Born in Los Angeles on July 14, 1930, she was 89 years old and in the 71st year of her religious profession at the time of her death.

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.