
Markham B. Campaigne, former headmaster of St. Margaret’s Episcopal School, dies at 83
Jun 4, 2025
Markham B. Campaigne — a former headmaster of St. Margaret's Episcopal School in San Juan Capistrano, who was instrumental to the schools growth as the longest-serving...
The Rev. Canon Peter Kreitler, environmental advocate, dies at 83
May 28, 2025
The Rev. Canon Peter G. Kreitler – longtime advocate for the stewardship of creation and a former diocesan minister for the environment – died May 16 at his home in Pacific...

Elsie Sadler, former senior warden at Pasadena’s All Saints Church, dies at 97
Apr 16, 2025
Elsie Cory Sadler, a longtime senior warden of All Saints Church in Pasadena and a former vice president of development at Huntington Memorial Hospital, died Feb. 6 in La...

The Rev. Canon Richard Estrada, champion of immigrants and youth-at-risk, dies at 83
Apr 2, 2025
The Rev. Canon Richard Estrada – who championed the rights of immigrants and at-risk youth throughout his longtime priesthood, first as a Claretian Catholic and later as an...

Palisades lay leader Carol Lanning dies at 95
Apr 2, 2025
Canon Carol Lanning – a former senior warden of St. Matthew’s Church in Pacific Palisades and a longtime assistant to the late actor Charlton Heston – died Feb. 18. She was...

The Rev. Argola Haynes dies at 84
Apr 2, 2025
The Rev. Argola “Golie” Haynes – a retired priest of the Diocese of Los Angeles and former teacher in Pasadena city schools – died March 29 at age 84. Survivors include her...

RIP: Nancy Houston Guthrie
Sep 11, 2024
[The Episcopal News] A Sept. 14 11 a.m. memorial service at Trinity Church, Orange, has been set for the late Nancy Houston Guthrie, a lay leader St. Stephen’s in Beaumont...

RIP: The Reverend Nancy Sinclair
Aug 28, 2024
March 23, 1945 - August 26, 2024 [The Episcopal News] The Rev. Nancy Sinclair, 79, retired vicar of St. Theodore of Canterbury Church, Seal Beach, died Aug. 26. She passed...

RIP: The Reverend Bert Axel Anderson Jr.
Aug 21, 2024
February 18, 2029 – August 13, 2024 [The Episcopal News] The Rev. Bert Anderson Jr., 95, a priest of the Diocese of Los Angeles and resident of Ashland, Oregon, died Aug....

RIP: The Reverend Gustavo Hernandez
Aug 8, 2024
November 11, 1934 - July 19, 2024 The Rev. Gustavo Hernandez – who served as rector of St. Clement’s, Huntington Park, from 1989 to 1999 and most recently assisted at St....
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