Obituaries

Brother Duane T. Crockett, M.M.

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Brother Duane T. Crockett, M.M., a Maryknoll missioner to Hawaii for 17 years, died May 21 at Phelps Memorial Hospital in Sleepy Hollow. He was 92.

Brother Crockett served at a parish and as a high school religion teacher in Hilo, Hawaii, 1956-1973. He also served in Ohio and California.

Born in Oakland, Calif., he entered Maryknoll in 1949 after serving in the South Pacific with the U.S. Merchant Marine. He professed final vows in 1954.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Pacific Western University-California.

A Funeral Mass was offered June 7 in Our Lady Queen of Apostles Chapel at Maryknoll, Ossining. Burial was in Maryknoll Society Cemetery.

Brother Duane T. Crockett, M.M. Sister Rita McGetrick, C.N.D.