RIP: The Reverend Ellen Speyer Murasaki-Wekall
Mar 6, 2024
January 30, 1925 - March 4, 2024 The Rev. Ellen Speyer Murasaki-Wekall, Ph.D., priest of the Diocese of Los Angeles, and counselor and spiritual advisor to dozens of its...
RIP: Marty E. Coleman
Feb 7, 2024
[The Episcopal News] Marty E. Coleman, whose ministries in peace and justice spanned four decades at Pasadena’s All Saints Church and beyond – died Jan. 29. She was 92 and...
RIP: The Rev. Norman Reid Freeman Jr.
Feb 7, 2024
[The Episcopal News] The Rev. Norman Reid Freeman Jr., a Juilliard-trained, Grammy Award-winning percussionist and timpanist who performed with the New York Pops and New...
RIP: Canon Thomas Charles Foster
Jan 31, 2024
April 26, 1938 – January 27, 2024 Canon Thomas Charles Foster, 85, former organist and music director at All Saints' Church, Beverly Hills, teacher, composer, member of the...
RIP: The Reverend Canon Peter Davis Haynes
Dec 1, 2023
July 30, 1946 – November 28, 2023 The Rev. Canon Peter D. Haynes, 77, former rector of St. Michael & All Angels, Corona del Mar, and dean of Deanery 10, died Nov. 28...
RIP: Mary Dianne Bly Dybvig
Oct 18, 2023
May 18, 1944 – October 3, 2023 Mary Dianne Bly Dybvig, 79, wife of the Rev. Ronald Dybvig, died at home surrounded by family on Tuesday, October 3, 2023. With her husband, a...
RIP: Sylvia-Rose Pretorius Mackenzie
Oct 11, 2023
[The Episcopal News] Sylvia-Rose Pretorius Mackenzie – widow of the late Bishop Edward Mackenzie, mother of the Rev. Vanessa Mackenzie of L.A.’s Church of the Advent, and...
Canon John M. Hitchcock
Oct 11, 2023
[The Episcopal News] Canon John M. Hitchcock, 83, a dedicated advocate for children and the former executive director of Hillsides, a family service center and diocesan...
RIP: The Rev. John Richard Phalen
Oct 7, 2023
June 14, 1936 - October 5, 2023 The Rev. John Richard Phalen, priest of the diocese of Los Angeles, died Oct. 5. He was 87. Phalen was an interim priest at several...
RIP: The Reverend Canon Virginia Gilbert Erwin
Sep 13, 2023
November 17, 1945 - September 12, 2023 [The Episcopal News – September 13, 2023] The Rev. Canon Virginia "Ginny" Gilbert Erwin, former rector of Trinity Church, Orange, and...
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