Msgr. Joseph Anthony Mancuso, 77, died April 14, surrounded by family at the assisted living facility where he spent the last 18 months of his life.

Sister Lou Whipple, OSB, 50, a Benedictine sister of Mount St. Scholastica, Atchison, Kans., died Wednesday, March 8, 2017, at the monastery.

Father Robert T. Costello, SJ, died Feb. 21, 2017 in St. Louis, Mo., after a brief illness.

Early in the morning of Monday, 20 February 2017, our beloved confrere Father Aidan McSorley, OSB, a monk of Conception Abbey, Conception, MO, entered his eternal reward at the age of 75.

Father Bernard (Ben) Diekhoff, C.PP.S. of the Kansas City Province of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood died on Saturday, January 7, 2017,

Sister Mary McAuley Gillgannon, RSM (Religious Sister of Mercy), died peacefully Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016, at Mercy Villa in Omaha, Neb.

Father Wilfred L. (Bill) LaCroix, SJ, died Thursday, December 22, 2016 at the Jesuit elder care community in St. Louis, Missouri, after a long illness.

When Avila University is mentioned, more often than not, so is Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet Olive Louise Dallavis, president of the south Kansas City university for 25 years.

Benedictine Sister of Perpetual Adoration Louise Gertrude Kuborn, OSB died peacefully on Aug. 4, 2016.

Sister Mary Frances Soto