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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.

Mercy Sister Sheila Murphy died at Marian Oaks Life Center in Burlingame on Sept. 25 at the age of 89. Born in Ireland, she came to the United States in 1947, soon entered the Sisters of Mercy in Burlingame and professed vows in 1951.

Presentation Sister Patricia Marie Mulpeters, a former President of the Congregation, died on October 9 at the Presentation Motherhouse in San Francisco. She was a Sister of the Presentation for 73 years and 93 years old.

Sister Virginia O’Reilly, formerly known as Sister Joan Patricia O’Reilly, died on Monday, Sept. 24 at the Dominican Life Center in Adrian, Michigan. She was 91 years of age and in the 75th year of her religious profession in the Adrian Dominican Congregation.

Sister Helen (St. George) Thompson, 85, died Sept. 4 at Marian Hall, Dubuque, Iowa.

Holy Names Sister Patricia Bussman, formerly known as Sister Mary Annunciata, died Sept. 10 at Mercy Retirement Center in Oakland. She was 85 years old and a Sister of the Holy Names for 64 years.

Father Jim Morris died Sept. 1 after an extended period of declining health.

Holy Names Sister Dorothy Clare (Mary Ann Klinger) died July 26. She was 84 years old and had celebrated 65 years of profession as a Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary.

Sister Jeannette Croteau died June 22. Sister Jeannette was 100 years old and entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange in 1937. For 29 years she ministered as a teacher and particularly enjoyed teaching French.

Mercy Sister Diana Petz died July 9 at the age of 85. Born in Buffalo, New York, Sister Diana entered the Sisters of Mercy in 1950 with the religious name Sister Mary Lucia.

Monterey Bishop Richard J. Garcia, a San Francisco native and the fourth bishop of Monterey, died July 11, the diocese announced. He was diagnosed just three months ago with the onset of Alzheimer’s disease and experienced a very rapid decline in health.

Paulist Father George Roland Fitzgerald, a former pastor of Old St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco, died June 20, at the rectory of Newman Hall/Holy Spirit Parish in Berkeley where he is also a former pastor. He was 86 years old.

Benedictine Father Pius Horvath died June 23 in the Benedictine monastery of Woodside Priory in Portola Valley.

Holy Family Sister Marianne Smith died at the motherhouse of the Sisters of the Holy Family in Fremont on June 21 at the age of 94. Sister Marianne entered the Sisters of the Holy Family from St. James Parish, San Francisco on July 2, 1944, at the age of 20.

Presentation Sister Patricia Anne Cloherty, baptismal name Mary Dolores, died May 12 at the Presentation Motherhouse in San Francisco. Born in San Francisco Sister Patricia Anne was a Sister of the Presentation for 69 years.

Dominican Sister Barbara Hubbard, formerly known as Sister Alice Josepha Hubbard, died on May 18 at the Dominican Life Center in Adrian, Michigan. She was 87 years of age and in the 67th year of her religious profession in the Adrian Dominican Congregation.

Sister Marian Hurley (William Marie), 90, died May 1 at Marian Hall in Dubuque, Iowa. She entered the BVM congregation Sept. 8, 1946, and professed first vows on March 19, 1949, and final vows on Aug. 15, 1954.

Presentation Sister Kathleen Healy (religious name Sister Mary Daniel) died April 21 at the Presentation Motherhouse in San Francisco. She was 92 years old.