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Father Edward L. Guth, S.J., who taught physics and mathematics, died Jan. 26 at Montefiore North Division Hospital in the Bronx. He was 83.
He taught at Jesuit high schools in Brooklyn and Buffalo and at his alma mater, St. Peter’s High School in Jersey City, N.J.
From 1971 to 1976 he taught at the Jesuit high school in Chuuk, Micronesia, in the southwestern Pacific.
While teaching at St. Peter’s Prep in the 1980s, he was minister of the Jesuit community there. He also was minister for the communities at Gonzaga retreat house in Monroe, 1986-1989, and the Jesuit retreat house at Auriesville, 1989-1996.
He was a parochial vicar in Buffalo from 1996 until 2008, when he was assigned to Murray-Weigel Hall, the Jesuit infirmary in the Bronx.
Born in Jersey City, N.J., he entered the Jesuits in Poughkeepsie in 1948 and professed vows in 1950. He studied at Weston College in Massachusetts and Woodstock College in Maryland, and was ordained to the priesthood at Fordham University Church in 1960.
He is survived by two sisters, Marjorie McCormack and Vera Naughton.
A Funeral Mass was celebrated Jan. 29 in the chapel at Murray-Weigel Hall. Burial was in the Jesuit cemetery at Auriesville.
