Father Thomas R. Amarillas, M.M.
who served in Maryknoll missions in Central America, died June 1 in an automobile accident in Guatemala. He was 64. He had been serving in the Peten area since 2000, and before that served for many years in El Salvador as a marriage counselor with the family pastoral department in the Archdiocese of San Salvador. Born in Tucson, Ariz., he entered Maryknoll College in Glen Ellyn, Ill., in 1959. He received a bachelor's degree there and a master of divinity degree from Maryknoll School of Theology in Ossining. He was ordained in 1968. During his seminary training he taught catechetics at Sing Sing prison in Ossining and did apostolic work with Cuban refugees in Tarrytown. He was first assigned to Maryknoll's Central America Mission Region in 1969, serving in various assignments in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. He twice returned to the United States for assignments in that period, including 1979-1982 at the Maryknoll Center House in Los Angeles to assist in vocation recruitment and mission education. He later served a three-year term there as vocation minister, beginning in 1990. Father Amarillas is survived by a sister, Edith Sandoval-Jantzen, and two brothers, Eddie Sandoval and Julian Sandoval. A Funeral Mass was offered June 7 at St. Augustine's Cathedral in Tucson. A Memorial Mass was to be celebrated at a later date at the Maryknoll Society Center in Ossining.

Robert Breen
a junior honor student at Msgr. Farrell High School on Staten Island and an all-star member of its cross country and track teams, died June 21 after being struck by a car while on a run. He was 16. He was doing a solo workout and had been running in Clove Lakes Park when he was hit as he ran through the intersection of Victory Boulevard and Seneca Avenue. He died of head injuries. "He was such a nice kid, one of the nicest kids you could meet," said Father John N. Paddack, principal of Farrell. "He had a charisma and a charm about him that acted as a magnet for people. He was super-friendly." He added that Robert was "a leader" who was quick to volunteer his time. "Anything that had to be done, you could ask him," Father Paddack said. Robert had an academic average in the mid-90s and was a member of the National Honor Society. Father John J. O'Hara, pastor of the family's parish, St. Teresa's, celebrated the Funeral Mass there June 26. Concelebrating were Father Paddack and the four priests of the Farrell faculty. Father O'Hara told CNY that Robert was "a young man of unusual stature and personal character." "He was a leader not only in the classroom and on the track team, but also in the community," Father O'Hara said. He was known for giving of himself to a number of community-oriented causes." He added that Robert died "doing what he loved to do: run." Mr. Breen was the third Farrell student to die in an automobile fatality this year. Joseph Caruso was killed in a car accident Feb. 20 while on vacation in Mexico with his family. Leonardo Ingrassia died in a crash April 4 after being ejected from the car he was riding in with friends. Father Paddack called the deaths "a tragedy of unbelievable proportions" and said that Farrell students are "absolutely numb." "The kids are very sad," he said. "They just don't know how to handle it. We're helping them through the grief cycle as best we can." The school, which is open all summer, is offering counseling throughout the coming months; students may ask to speak with a priest, a teacher, a coach or a counselor. Father Paddack said that many students have arranged for counseling. Outside counseling also is readily available. Father Paddack said that public schools in the Oakwood section, where the school is located, have offered the services of their psychologists. "The community has been wonderful," he said. He added that since Robert's death there has been "a wonderful outpouring to the family and the students at the school." Burial was at Moravian Cemetery. He is survived by his parents, Patricia and Daniel, and four brothers: Daniel, Joseph, Patrick, and his twin, Michael.plans for a memorial? a service, anything else?

Father Joseph H. Cappel, M.M.
who had served in Chile since 1948 and was imprisoned in Korea during World War II, died May 31 in Santiago, Chile. He was 95 and was the brother of another Maryknoll priest, Father Charles H. Cappel, M.M. In 1949 he became pastor of a parish in Curepto, Chile, caring for 9,500 parishioners. He oversaw a school, an asylum, a hospital and five mission chapels; 13 chapels were added through the years. Named assistant pastor in 1976, he continued to serve until his death. Bishop Carmen Valenzuela Abarca of the Diocese of Talca presided at the Funeral Mass June 2 in Curepto. Burial was in the parish cemetery. Born in Covington, Ky., he grew up in Norwood, Ohio, he held a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Dayton. Ordained in 1935, he was assigned to Masan and then Peng Yang, North Korea. Arrested by the Japanese in 1941, he was held in solitary confinement briefly, then interned for five months with nine other Maryknoll priests. Through a prisoner exchange they returned to the United States in 1942. Father Cappel was assigned to Chile in 1943 and was a regional group superior, regional superior and pastor. He spent a year as assistant spiritual director at Maryknoll Seminary in Ossining, then returned to Chile. Father Charles Cappel will celebrate a Memorial Mass at Maryknoll on a date to be announced. He also is survived by his brother John.

Sister Mary of the Annunciation Corcoran, O.S.S.
who helped tend the Sacramentine Nuns' monastery in Yonkers, died June 16 in St. John's Riverside Hospital there. She was 98. She taught for several years at Blessed Sacrament Academy in Yonkers after receiving her teacher's diploma in 1928 from the College of New Rochelle. But most of her service was in helping with the works of the Monastery of the Blessed Sacrament. She was known for her keen interest in politics, and kept her fellow sisters informed about the records and positions of candidates. She was born in Manhattan, entered the Religious of the Blessed Sacrament congregation in 1924 and professed final vows in 1929. A Funeral Mass was offered June 21 in Sacred Heart Church in Yonkers, with burial in Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne.

Betty A. Droulette
wife of Deacon Donald L. Droulette of St. Joseph's parish in Kingston, died May 29 at the home of her daughter, Susan Basile, in Beltsville, Md. She was 72. Mrs. Droulette, a homemaker, worked at IBM in the 1950s. At St. Joseph's she was a member of the Community of God's Love prayer group and a past president of the Altar and Rosary Society. A Funeral Mass was offered June 1 at St. Joseph's Church, with burial in Hurley Cemetery. In addition to her husband and daughter, she is survived by two sons, Michael and Timothy, of Beltsville, and two sisters, Rita Feeney and Joan Moore, of Kingston.

Abbot Eidenschink
Benedictine Was 89. A Funeral Mass was offered June 25 for Benedictine Abbot John Eidenschink, 89, who was abbot of St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minn., from 1971 to 1979. He died June 19 at St. John's Abbey Health Center. The Mass was offered at the Abbey Church of St. John the Baptist, followed by burial in the abbey cemetery. He was seventh abbot of the abbey. He was president of the American-Cassinese Congregation of Benedictine Men from 1983 to 1989. After resigning as abbot at age 65, Abbot Eidenschink was pastor, in 1979-87, and then associate pastor, 1987-88, of Seven Dolors Parish in Albany. He was chaplain of what is now called Mother of Mercy Campus of Care in Albany, 1988-98, before retiring. Abbot Eidenschink's life of service was tempered by allegations of sexual abuse made against him by two former monks. The first incidents of abuse occurred in the 1960s when Abbot Eidenschink was subprior, the abbey's third in rank, and the second incidents occurred during the late 1970s and early 1980s.f+i‹CNS

Father Benjamin J. Foerch, O.F.M.
died June 24 in Manhattan, where he had been serving at St. Francis of Assisi parish. He was 71. He had been a parochial vicar at St. Francis of Assisi on West 31st Street since 2002, and had previously served there from 1973 to 1984. He served in the Franciscans' Holy Name Province Mission in Bolivia, 1966-1972, and as a chaplain in the Veterans Administration Hospital in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 1985-2001. Born in Bergenfield, N.J., he entered the Franciscans in 1958 and professed final vows in 1962 after studies at St. Joseph's Seminary in Callicoon. He also studied at St. Francis College in Rye Beach, N.H., and Holy Name College and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He was ordained on March 13, 1965. In 1978 he received a master's degree at Iona College in New Rochelle. Surviving is a sister, Mary Bennett. A Funeral Mass was offered at St. Francis of Assisi Church on June 28. Burial was in the Friars Plot in Totowa, N.J.

Sister Helen Fox, O.S.F.
who did office work at the motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Francis of the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin, died May 24 in the infirmary there. She was 86. She was a payroll officer on the finance office staff from 1980 until she retired in 2000. She also served a one-year term, beginning in 1983, as resident moderator of Immaculate Conception Motherhouse in Hastings-on-Hudson. Before that she was a cottage mother for 26 years at the group residences of the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin, Mount Loretto, Staten Island. She was at Boys House, 1954-1956, and at Duval Cottage, 1956-1980. Born in Brooklyn, Sister Helen entered the religious community in 1951 and professed final vows in 1956. A Funeral Mass was offered May 27 in Our Lady of Angels Chapel of Immaculate Conception Motherhouse with burial in Resurrection Cemetery on Staten Island.

Father Joseph P. Gorman
retired pastor of St. Francis Xavier Cabrini parish on Roosevelt Island, died June 16 at Mary Manning Walsh Home in Manhattan. He was 73. Father Gorman, whose immediate and extended family had many vocations, was pastor of St. Francis Xavier Cabrini from 1985 to 1999, when he retired. He served as pastor before that at St. John Vianney parish in the Bronx, 1978-1985. Cardinal Egan offered the Funeral Mass on June 21 at St. Brendan's Church in the Bronx, where Father Gorman's brother-in-law, Deacon Paul Hveem, is assigned. The homilist was Father Francis P. Gorman, the pastor of St. Teresa of Avila in Sleepy Hollow, who is a cousin of Father Joseph Gorman. Father Gorman was the second pastor of St. Francis Xavier Cabrini parish, which was established when Roosevelt Island was developed with housing for middle-income families in the late 1970s. He was serving there when the population greatly expanded after the opening of a new development at the northern end of the island in the early 1990s. Father Francis Gorman, in his homily, spoke of his cousin's inspiration in a family in which four boys of their generation became priests and four girls became nuns. "All of us admired and looked up to Joseph as the wise leader," he said. "He was the first of four of us to go to Cathedral College right on to ordination. He was our inspiration‹after our parents." He described his cousin as "a happy priest" who was "always grateful to be God's instrument." He also recalled Father Joseph Gorman's "gift with expressing the English language." "At his sister Anne's funeral three years ago, he used the Œe' at the end of her name to mean Œexcellent' in such a way that the word seemed to belong to her alone. That was God's gift to Joseph Gorman‹to be used for others," he said. Born in the Bronx, Father Gorman studied for the priesthood at Cathedral College and St. Joseph's Seminary in Dunwoodie. He was ordained June 2, 1956. He earned master's degrees at Dunwoodie and at New York Theological Seminary in Manhattan. He served as parochial vicar at Holy Trinity parish in Manhattan, 1956-1969. He was on the faculty of Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx, 1969-1976, and served for three months during that period as temporary administrator of St. Rita of Cascia parish nearby in 1972-1973. He was parochial vicar at St. Angela Merici in the Bronx, 1976-1978, before his appointment to St. John Vianney. Father Gorman is survived by two sisters, Sister Rose Ellen Gorman, O.P., and Jeanne Hveem. He was predeceased by a sister, Anne McCauley, and two brothers, Richard Gorman and Msgr. James T. Gorman, a former pastor of St. Patrick's parish in Bedford who died in 2002. Father Gorman was buried in St. John's Cemetery in Queens.

Sister Mary Celine Grady, R.S.M.
who was an elementary school teacher in Manhattan, the Bronx and Westchester, died June 4 at Schervier Nursing Care Center in the Bronx. She was 96. Her most recent school assignment was at St. Margaret Mary in the Bronx, where she was a part-time teacher from 1975 to 1981. She was a bookkeeper and had convent duty there, 1981-1990, and was a convent resident, 1990-2001. She had taught at the school earlier, 1934-1936. Other schools where she taught were St. Francis de Sales, Manhattan, 1931-1934; St. Simon Stock, the Bronx, 1936-1939 and 1968-1975; Sacred Heart, Mount Vernon, 1939-1941 and 1962-1967; Good Shepherd, Manhattan, 1941-1942; St. Cecilia's, Manhattan, 1950-1953; Our Lady of the Scapular, Manhattan, 1954-1956; Transfiguration, Tarrytown, 1956-1962; and St. Joseph's, Spring Valley, 1967-1968. She was a group mother at St. Michael's Home on Staten Island, 1945-1950. Born in Ballaghmore, Ireland, she entered the Sisters of Mercy in 1929 and professed final vows in 1934. She lived in retirement at Marian Woods in Hartsdale, 2001-2002, and then at a health care facility in Worcester, Mass. In January, she entered Schervier Nursing Care Center. Surviving is a sister, Dina Condron. A Funeral Mass was offered June 8 at Marian Woods Residence Chapel. Burial was in Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne.

Father Thomas C. Higgins
a Maryknoll missioner to Bolivia for 40 years, died on June 1 at St. Teresa's Residence in Ossining. He was 80. He was immediately assigned to Bolivia after his ordination for the Maryknoll Fathers in 1950. Two years later, he was sent to Riberalta, where he worked among rubber and Brazil nut gatherers living in settlements along the jungle rivers. In 1954 he was appointed director of the vicariate's new industrial school. In the early 1960s, he helped to develop a radio network. After a home leave, he returned and was appointed director of Blanca Flor Cooperative project and pastor of the Cavinas mission. He was pastor in Riberalta, 1966-1978, and then in Cobija, 1978-1981. He later served in Cotoca and Mineros. Returning to the United States in 1990, he resided at the Maryknoll Society Center in Ossining and assisted at St. Francis of Assisi parish in Mount Kisco, where he served among Spanish-speaking parishioners. Born in Springfield, Ohio, he entered Maryknoll Junior Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1939. He held a degree in philosophy from Maryknoll Seminary in Ossining. He is survived by a sister, Catherine Higgins, and two brothers, James and Charles. A Funeral Mass was offered June 4 at Our Lady Queen of Apostles Chapel in Maryknoll Society Center. Burial was in Maryknoll Cemetery.

Sister Mary Eleanor Mahoney, O.P.
a founding faculty member of Mount St. Mary College in Newburgh and a former principal in the archdiocese, died June 6 in Siena Hall, the infirmary of the Dominican Sisters of Hope in Newburgh. She was 87. She taught theology at Mount St. Mary College from 1961 to 1977, and was a part-time professor and tutor for the college's Higher Education Opportunity Program, 1983-1997. Also in that period she did part-time teaching at the Greenhaven Correctional Facility as part of the Marist College program there. She was principal of St. Augustine School in Larchmont, 1955-1961. At the elementary school level, she taught at Casa San Jose in Newburgh, 1936-1938; St. Thomas School in Pleasantville, 1938-1940; and Holy Family School in New Rochelle, 1940-1947. She was formation director for the Dominican Sisters in Newburgh, 1949-1954. She also served in the 1970s as director of ministries for women in the Diocese of Richmond, Va. Returning to New York in 1980, she worked three years for the Salesians Missions in New Rochelle. Born in Paterson, N.J., she entered the Dominican Sisters of Newburgh in 1934 and professed final vows in 1942. She earned a bachelor's degree in social studies from Fordham University, a master's in theology from Providence College in Rhode Island and a doctorate in theology from St. Mary's Notre Dame School of Theology for Women in Indiana. In 1994 she received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Mount St. Mary College. A Funeral Mass was offered June 8 in the Dominican Sisters of Hope Centennial Hall in Newburgh, with burial in the sisters' cemetery there.

Mother Mary Bernadette Meehan, O.P.
former superior general of the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, Servants of Relief for Incurable Cancer, died June 18 at Rosary Hill Home in Hawthorne, where she served for most of her 72 years in religious life. She was 91. She was elected superior general in 1981 and served until 1989. Previously she was superior of Rosary Hill Home, 1958-1964, and of Sacred Heart Home in Philadelphia, Pa., 1973-1979. Born in Philadelphia, she entered the congregation in 1930 and professed first vows in 1932. Assigned to Rosary Hill, she served there until her appointment to the Philadelphia home, except for several years at Holy Family Home in Cleveland in the 1950s. She returned to Rosary Hill in 1979. A Funeral Mass was offered June 21 at the motherhouse at Rosary Hill, with burial at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne.

Father Ronald J. Potter, M.M.
a Maryknoll missioner to Guatemala and Honduras for 36 years, died on June 5 at Phelps Memorial Hospital in Sleepy Hollow. He was 70. Until April, when he returned to the United States for medical treatment, he had been serving as co-pastor in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. After his ordination to the priesthood in 1961, he served for 19 years at three parishes in Huehuetenango, Guatemala. During a brief assignment in El Salvador in 1980, he worked with Maryknoll Sisters Maura Clarke and Ita Ford. After they were murdered in December 1980, Father Potter was forced to leave the country after learning that he was on a death squad hit list. He spent the next four years in Honduras, and returned there in 1992 after a seven-year assignment to the Maryknoll development department in the United States and Puerto Rico. Father Potter, a native of Brooklyn, entered Maryknoll in 1951. He earned a degree in philosophy from Maryknoll College, Glen Ellyn, Ill., and a master's degree in religious education from Maryknoll Seminary in Ossining. He is survived by a sister, Diane McDonough, and a brother, Phillip Potter. A Funeral Mass was offered on June 8 in Our Lady Queen of Apostles Chapel at Maryknoll Society Center in Ossining. Burial was in Maryknoll Cemetery.

Sister Joan Dolores Regan, O.S.S.
subprioress of the Sacramentine Nuns in Scarsdale, a contemplative order dedicated to Eucharistic adoration, died May 26 at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx. She was 64. Born in Yonkers, she graduated from Blessed Sacrament Academy, the school formerly operated by the sisters, in 1958 and entered the order that year. She received the habit in 1959 and was given the name Sister Mary of the Immaculate Conception. She professed final vows in 1963. Previously she served as sacristan, portress and procurator. She also had been secretary of the Metropolitan Association of Contemplative Communities. A Funeral Mass was offered June 1 at Sacred Heart Church in Yonkers, with burial at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne.

Sister Marion Anthony Roche, O.S.F.
who served for many years in housekeeping positions, died May 25 in the infirmary of Immaculate Conception Motherhouse in Hastings-on-Hudson. She was 96. She was the cook at the motherhouse from 1954 to 1970, and then at Our Lady of Perpetual Help parish in Pelham Manor, 1970-1973 and St. Catherine's Convent in Pelham, 1973-1984. From 1984 until her retirement in 1989 she was the housekeeper at St. Agnes Convent in White Plains. Earlier, she was kitchen manager at St. Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie, 1942-1954, did child care work at St. Elizabeth's Home of the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin, Mount Loretto, Staten Island, 1940-1942; and cared for the sisters' dining room and chaplain's quarters at St. Benedict's Home in Rye. Born in Cork City, Ireland, she entered the Sisters of St. Francis of the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin in 1930 and professed final vows in 1935. A Funeral Mass was offered May 27 in Our Lady of Angels Chapel of Immaculate Conception Motherhouse, with burial in Resurrection Cemetery on Staten Island.

Manuel Rina Suaybaguio
the brother of a Staten Island priest, died June 1 at Mission Hospital in Tagum, Davao, Philippines. He was 71. He was a property custodian of the Daughters of St. Paul Bookstore on Staten Island, 1989-1991, and a parishioner at Our Lady of Mount Carmel-St. Benedicta parish there before returning to the Philippines, where he was born. His brother, Father Evangelio Gil Rina Suaybaguio, is a parochial vicar at St. Joseph-St. Thomas parish on Staten Island. A sister, Sister Maria Fidelis Rina Suaybaguio, F.S.P., predeceased him. Mr. Suaybaguio is also survived by a sister, Maria Rina Suaybaguio, and his eight children. A Memorial Mass will be offered by Father Suaybaguio on July 12 at St. Thomas Church.