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Father Edward J. Flanigan, M.M., who spent nearly all of his priesthood as a missioner in Taiwan, died June 30 at Phelps Memorial Hospital in Sleepy Hollow. He was 78. From 1990 to 2005 he was director of the Maryknoll Chinese Language School in Taichung, Taiwan. He did family ministry at Maryknoll's Friendship House in Taipei, 1981-1986, and was a pastor in Changhua City. Assigned to Taiwan, then known as Formosa, after his ordination in 1956, he did pastoral work in Chu Shan, where he built a village church. From 1958 to 1962 he served in Tien Chung. He was pastor in Feng-Yuan, 1962-1975. From 1977 until 1981, he worked among aboriginal tribes. In the United States he did mission education in California and New Jersey, 1975-1977, and was campus minister at the University of Hawaii and the East-West Center in Honolulu. Born in Philadelphia, he entered Maryknoll in 1946. He studied for the priesthood at Maryknoll Seminary in Ossining. He is survived by two sisters, Sister Mary Regina, I.H.M., and Dr. Eleanor Flanigan, and two brothers, Dr. Richard Flanigan and Dr. Donald Flanigan. A Funeral Mass was offered July 3 in Queen of Apostles Chapel at Maryknoll, with burial at Maryknoll Cemetery.
