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Father Aquinas Edward Stack, O. Carm., who served at Transfiguration parish in Tarrytown, died Oct. 20 at University Hospital in Tamarac, Fla. He was 79.
He was a parochial vicar at Transfiguration, and prior and procurator of the Carmelites there, from 1985 to 1994. He then served in Boca Raton, Fla., until 1999, when he returned to New York for one year in 1999 to serve as pre-novice director at St. Eliseus Priory in Tappan.
Father Stack also served in the archdiocese from 1967 to 1979 as a history teacher at John S. Burke Catholic High School in Goshen, where he also served as campus minister and guidance counselor. He also was a teacher and prefect at St. Albert’s Junior Seminary in Middletown. He did retreat work in Williamstown, Mass., 1980-1985.
Father Stack returned to Boca Raton in 2000, where he served in a parish until retiring in 2007.
Born in Manhattan, he entered the Carmelites in 1953 and professed final vows as a Carmelite brother in 1957. He held a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University and a master’s from SUNY New Paltz.
He later studied for the priesthood at St. Anthony-on-Hudson Seminary in Rensselaer and was ordained in 1985.
A Funeral Mass was offered Oct. 26 at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Middletown, with burial in Carmelite Cemetery there.
