Father Robert J. Egan, SJ, longtime faculty member at Seattle University, died March 12, 2022, at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos, California, three weeks short of his 91st birthday. Fr. Egan was born in Spokane, Washington, April 5, 1931, the son of Howard Egan and Carol Grimes Egan. He attended Gonzaga Prep, where …
Father Richard W. Rolfs, SJ, emeritus professor of history at Loyola Marymount University, died March 7, 2022, at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos, California, at age 98. He had been a member of the Jesuits for 73 years. He had a long association with Loyola Marymount, first as an undergraduate (1946-48) and later …
Father James W. Felt, SJ, professor emeritus of philosophy at Santa Clara University, died after a brief illness on February 17, 2022, at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos, California, at age 96. Fr. Felt had spent his entire professional career at Santa Clara, from 1965 to 2013, when he came to Sacred Heart …
Father John C. Endres, SJ, Emeritus Professor of Scripture at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, died peacefully January 26, 2022, at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos, California. He was 75 years old and a Jesuit for 53 years. He was a faculty member of the Jesuit School of Theology …
Brother Gebhard R.M. Frohlich died Jan. 17, 2015, in Grand Coteau, La., after 50 years as a Jesuit. He was 93. Born in Germany, Brother “Geb” studied pharmacy and mechanics before being drafted into the German Army in 1941. From 1941 to ‘45, he built railroads and bridges as a soldier in the Russian Front …
Father W. Charles Heiser, SJ, died Friday, Sept. 15, 2017, in St. Louis. He was 95 years old, a Jesuit for 77 years and a priest for 64 years. Remembered by his fellow Jesuits as a deeply spiritual man, Fr. Heiser’s life was celebrated in a Mass of Christian Burial on Tuesday, Sept. 26, at …
Father Robert L. Erickson, SJ, whose parish ministry served Native American people in Washington, Idaho and Montana and the Bemba people of Zambia, died December 22, 2021, at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos, California, after a long illness. He was 80 years old and a Jesuit for 57 years. Fr. Erickson was born …
Father Andrew (Drew) Maddock, SJ, retired pastor of historic St. Ignatius Mission in St. Ignatius, Montana; Sacred Heart in Arlee, Montana; and St. John Berchmans in Jocko, Montana, on the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe’s reservation, died December 15, 2021, at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos, California. He was 78 years old and …
Father Michael R. Pastizzo, SJ, retired professor of religious studies at Jesuit universities in the United States and Rome, died December 16, 2021, at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos, California. He was 87 years old and was a Jesuit for 61 years. Fr. Pastizzo was born in Niagara Falls, New York, on November …
Father William J. Fulco, SJ, retired professor of ancient Mediterranean studies at Loyola Marymount University, died November 28, 2021 at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center, Los Gatos, at age 85. A scholar of the ancient Near East, he taught a wide spectrum of courses ranging from archaeology, ancient Semitic languages and Old Testament to the Greek …