Rev. Msgr. Cornelius Patrick O’Leary, Col. USAF (Ret.), 97, was called to his eternal rest on February 14.
Msgr. O’Leary was born on June 29, 1922 to Patrick and Catherine (Murphy) O’Leary in Bridgeport, CT, he attended St. Augustine School and later Bassick High School for three years before attending St. Thomas Seminary in Bloomfield, CT in 1942.
Father Richard Humphreys, 88, was called to his eternal rest on January 11 in Perris.
He was born on June 18, 1931 to Dr. and Mrs. Despard and Eva Mae Humphreys in Oxnard and was baptized in 1931 in Transfiguration Church, Los Angeles.
Sister Alice Molina, RSHM, 71, was called to her eternal rest on December 27 in Orange.
She was a member of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary for 50 years. In the Diocese of San Bernardino, Sr. Alice served as the first Director of the Diocesan Department of Ministry of Educational Services (1997-2009).
Father Edward McGuinness, 89, was called to his eternal rest on December 25, 2019 in San Diego.
Fr. McGuinness, born on June 2, 1930 in Glasgow, Scotland, was the second of 10 children born to James Gerard McGuinness and Ann McGroarty. He is survived by his sisters, Sr. Agnes, SDB, Bridie, Molly, Ann and Catherine and brother, Pat.
On Sept. 11, 2019, Sister Sylvia Parkes, RSM, passed into the arms of her loving God after a long illness. Survived by four of her eight siblings, she had been longing to return to her native Sligo, Ireland.
Instead God gave her the gift of her true home where we wish her eternal rest. As God designs so well, two of Sr. Sylvia’s nieces, Edel and Aisling, came from Ireland to be with her in her illness.
Sister Mary Doran, OLVM, Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters, died peacefully in Hospice Care on Sept. 15, 2019, in the presence of her OLVM Sisters, who had come to be with her during her recent illness.
Sister Mary, the last OLVM Sister living locally, has for many years gifted the Diocese by her presence in Bermuda Dunes, her ministry as paralegal and her ongoing missionary zeal.
