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October 2, 1910 – October 15, 2009 The Rev. Canon Ernest Dwyer Sillers “retired” in 1975 after overseeing construction of a church building and establishing a new school at St. Mark’s Church in Downey, California. Then he went on to plant two churches and three additional Episcopal schools in the Diocese of Los Angeles. Sillers, […]
Meghan Tumilty has been appointed executive director of IRIS, the Interfaith Refugee and Immigration Service, a ministry of the Diocese of Los Angeles, Bishop J. Jon Bruno has announced. Tumilty received her bachelor degree with honors from the University of Arizona and her law degree from the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis. During her […]
June 24, 1945 – September 25, 2009 The Rev. Christine M. Nevarrez, deacon at Church of the Transfiguration, Arcadia, died Sept. 25 of cancer. She was 64. Survivors include her brother, Richard (Martha) Nevarrez and their children and a stepdaughter and her family. Her husband predeceased her. Requiem Eucharist and interment will be held at […]
d. August 27, 2009 Canon Betty Connelly, a veteran lay leader in the Diocese of Los Angeles and the wider Episcopal Church, died August 27 in Newport Beach, California, where she had been hospitalized the previous week after a stroke. She was 85. Connelly represented the Diocese of Los Angeles as a six-time Deputy to […]
Sept. 1, 1928 – August 15, 2009 The Rev. Forest O. “Frosty” Riek, Jr., whose longtime ministry in the Diocese of Los Angeles included some 25 years as priest at St. Stephen’s Church, Hollywood, after some years as an active lay leader there, died on August 15. He was 80. A memorial service will be […]
Parishioners at St. Timothy’s Church in Compton surprised Bishop Suffragan Chester L. Talton on Sunday June 28 by dedicating their church hall in thanksgiving for his ministry in the Los Angeles diocese. “We are gathered here today to thank God for the life of Bishop Chester L. Talton and for his love to St. Timothy’s […]
Martha Estes, United Thank Offering (UTO) coordinator for the Diocese of Los Angeles on June 24 unveiled a new UTO banner in San Juan Capistrano—just in time for the July 8 – 17 Episcopal Church Women (ECW) Triennial gathering in Anaheim. Joining Estes were diocesan ECW president Kay Alexander along with Janet Rodriguez, a parishioner […]
The Rev. Dr. Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook will join the faculty of Bloy House, the Episcopal Theological School at Claremont, as professor of Anglicanism. Kujawa-Holbrook will also be a permanent member of the faculty of Claremont Theological School, where she will teach religious education. She currently serves as academic dean of Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts […]
October 5, 1930 – April 25, 2009 The Rev. Frederick Duncan Edghill, former rector of St. Stephen’s Church, Beaumont, died on April 25 after a long illness. He was 78, and had resided in recent years in Loma Linda, attending Trinity Church in Redlands. A graveside service was held on May 1 at Mountain View […]
[COMPTON, California] President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first female elected head of state in Liberia and the continent of Africa, told students at St. Timothy s Episcopal School in Compton April 8 to “dream and then go for it—there may be difficulties but stay the course.” Sirleaf was in California as part of a three-week […]
d. January 26, 2009 Dr. Marlene M. Coleman Huss, a physician, author, and board member of the Canterbury Episcopal chaplaincy at the University of Southern California, died January 26, 2009, two months after the death of her husband, the late Judge William Huss. A board-certified pediatrician in private practice in Newport Beach for more than […]
November 28, 1958 – October 12, 2008 The Rev. Helen Alexandra (Alix) Evans, rector of St. Mary’s Church (Mariposa), Los Angeles, died on October 12. She was 49, and had been under treatment for a third recurrence of cancer. Evans was a practicing attorney before her ordination. She was the diocese’s leading voice on death […]
