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Father Clement Healy, O.F.M., a New Yorker who served as an educator and as a missioner to Jamaica, West Indies, died Sept. 16 at Holy Name Friary in Ringwood, N.J. He was 89.
In 1958, he was named superior of the Holy Name Province’s new mission at a parish in Kingston, Jamaica, where he would serve for nearly 20 years.
More recently he directed a chapel in Colonie and served at another chapel in Providence, R.I., before retiring in 1994.
His first years as a priest were spent in education. He taught at a high school in Buffalo and at Siena College in Loudonville and St. Bonaventure University in Olean.
Born in Manhattan, he grew up in the Bronx and attended St. Joseph Seraphic Seminary in Callicoon. He entered the Franciscans of the Holy Name Province in 1939 and made final vows in 1943. He was ordained a priest in 1945.
A Funeral Mass was offered Sept. 18 in the chapel of Holy Name Friary in Ringwood. Burial was in God’s Acre Cemetery there.
