Many years ago, for reasons I won’t bother you with, I was afforded the opportunity to perform twenty hours of community service at the charity of my choice.

Divine Word Father Andrew Biller, 87, a missionary in the Philippines for four decades, died Nov. 2, at Techny, Ill.

Father Philip Henry Luebbert, known to friends and family as Fr. Phil or simply Phil, died just after midnight Oct. 17, at his home at the Little Sisters of the Poor Jeanne Jugan Center in Kansas City,

Benedictine Sister of Perpetual Adoration Lenora Black, OSB died on Oct. 9, 2019.

Sr. Elaine Margaret Besand, CSJ was born Mildred Marie Besand June 27, 1941 in Festus, Missouri, the firstborn of Valle Francis & Thelma Bohnert Besand.

Sister Mary Charlene Ross was born in Kansas City, Mo., on March 25, 1930, to John and Ruth (Parrish) Ross.

“She was the treasure of our community and bedrock of charity,”

Father James H. Schrader, C.PP.S. of the Kansas City Province of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood died on Ash Wednesday, March 6, 2019 at St. Charles Center in Carthagena, Ohio.

Neal Daniel Colby, 77, died at home Dec. 27.

The Rev. Thomas L. Albers, C.PP.S., 78, a member of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood, Kansas City Province, died Sept. 30, 2018 at St. Rita Hospital in Lima, Ohio