Divine Word Father Eric Vargas, 67, died Feb. 27 in Techny.

Born in New York City, he joined the Society of the Divine Word in 1963 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1975.

In the early years of his priesthood, he ministered in Naranjito, Puerto Rico. He also did pastoral work on the East Coast and in California.

He was granted early retirement for health reasons in 2004 and moved to Techny in 2008.

He is survived by his sister, Rita Santiago.

Deacon Jaime Juarez, 85, died March 25. He was ordained in 1974.

Deacon Juarez had served at St. Benedict Parish in Chicago. He lived in Schaumburg when he died. He is survived by his wife, Carmen. He also was a father and grandfather.

Dominican Father David Matthew Hynous, 83, died March 24 in Chicago.

Born in Chicago, he attended St. Philip Neri and St. Odilo schools and Fenwick High School, Oak Park. He went to Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, for two years to prepare to enter the Dominicans in 1952. He was ordained in 1959.

He studied canon law at the Angelicum in Rome and taught at the college level before serving as secretary for the Apostolic Nunciature in Washington, D.C., from 1979 to 1981. He was vicar provincial for the Dominicans for four years and then served the Archdiocese of Chicago’s marriage tribunal as vice chancellor from 1986 to 1995. In 1995 he was called to Rome as procurator general for the Dominican Order.

In 1997 he returned to the tribunal in the Archdiocese of Chicago before serving on the tribunal in the Diocese of Joliet.

Sister of St. Casimir Teresita Miksas, 95, died March 24. She was a member of the congregation for 76 years.

Born in Chicago, she attended Immaculate Conception Parish in Brighton Park. She entered the Sisters of St. Casimir in 1936, and made her final vows in 1944.

She ministered in elementary and high schools in Illinois, Pennsylvania and Nebraska.

In the Archdiocese of Chicago she taught St. Anthony, Cicero (1939-1943); St. Casimir, Chicago Heights (1943-1947); and Maria High School (1964-1971; 1978- 1983).

In addition to teaching, Sister Teresita served as local superior, as part of the SSC leadership team, and superintendent of SSC Schools.

Mercy Sister Paulina Small, 89, died March 22 in Chicago.

Born in Chicago, she was educated by the Sisters of Mercy, first at Little Flower School and then Mercy High School. She entered the community in 1945.

She taught at Little Flower (1948-1949); Our Lady of Mount Carmel (1949-1956); St. Joan of Arc, Evanston (1956-1958); St. Joseph the Worker, Wheeling (1961-1962); and St. Thomas Aquinas (1968-1970), as well at schools in the Diocese of Rockford and in Wisconsin.

In 1977, she began ministering in health care, working for 22 years, she was a discharge planner and clerk at Mercy Hospital Chicago.

Deacon Thomas Morgan, 71, died March 19. He was ordained in 2005.

Over the years, Deacon Morgan had ministered at St. James Parish, Arlington Heights; Transfiguration Parish, Wauconda; and St. Gilbert Parish, Grayslake.

He served as a chaplain for St. Vincent de Paul, as a minister of care visiting the sick and dying, was involved in the Christian Family Movement and was a Quest Youth Group leader.

Deacon Morgan is survived by his wife Dolores; his children Mark Morgan, Kerry Hughes and Mary Kay Wathen; seven grandchildren and three siblings.

BVM Sister Dorothy (Mildred Ann) Townsell, 103, died March 18 in Dubuque, Iowa.

Born in Streator, Illinois, she entered the BVM congregation in 1932 and professed final vows in 1940.

In the Archdiocese of Chicago, Sister Dorothy taught at Mundelein College. She also taught college and high school in Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and California.

She is survived by her sisters Catherine Voisinet and Mildred Willett.

Providence Sister Amata (Helen Therese) Dugan died March 14 in St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana.

Born in Indianapolis, she entered the Sisters of Providence in 1950 and professed final vows in 1957.

She ministered in education and administration in Indiana, Illinois and California.

In the Archdiocese of Chicago, St. Francis Borgia (1952-1953), St. Genevieve (1953-1955) and St. Agnes (1963- 1965, 1987-1990).

Adrian Dominican Sister Helen Patrick (Mary Eileen) Bartley, 97, died March 12 in Adrian, Michigan.

Born in Chicago, she graduated from Aquinas High School. She was in the 76th year of her religious life.

She ministered in education in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Florida. She also served as a councilor for St. Dominic Province in Chicago for 6 years.

Felician Sister Joan Marie (Mary Mechtildis) Kryszak, 95, died March 7 in Our Lady of the Angels Convent.

She was born in Lemont, where she attended SS Cyril & Methodius School. She attended Good Counsel High School before entering the Felician Sisters in 1939. She professed final vows in 1947.

She ministered in elementary schools as a principal, teacher and tutor in Illinois, Wisconsin, and California, as well as taught in Brazil from 1970 to 1979.

In the Archdiocese of Chicago, she ministered at St. Helen (1939-1940), St. John of God (1941-1947), Sacred Heart (1955- 1956), St. Linus, Oak Lawn (1956-1958), SS. Peter & Paul (1958-1964), St. Hubert, Hoffman Estates (1979-1990) and St. Turibius (1990-2008).

Deacon Joseph A. Walsh, 71, died at home in River Forest on March 3. Deacon Walsh was ordained in 2009 and served at Ascension Parish in Oak Park.

Deacon Walsh was a member of Ascension Parish for 67 years. He graduated from Ascension School and St. Ignatius High School, received his undergraduate and master’s degrees from Loyola University Chicago. He was dean emeritus of Loyola’s School of Social Work.

In addition to serving as a deacon, he was very active in Oak Park community affairs. He was past president of District 97 school board and a member of the Oak Park mental health board.

He is survived by his wife, Katherine, and children David Walsh, Laura Stawczyk, Maureen Hilquist and Matthew Walsh and nine grandchildren; and siblings Mary Winklebleck, Clare Sobiesk, Joanne Lovell, Kathleen Walsh, Sheila Scanlan, and Patrick Kevin and Denis Walsh.

Deacon Charles “Chick” Moran, 76, died March 2. He was ordained in 1976 and had been retired for several years.

Deacon Moran was the first deacon at St. John the Evangelist Parish in Streamwood. He had been very active in ministering to the poor, and to the sick and dying, according to his son Daniel Moran.

Deacon Moran is survived by his four children: Daniel, Charles Moran, Cynthia Caceres and Laura Kreger; six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Father Edmund Francis Guz, 86, died March 2 at Presence Resurrection Medical Center. He was pastor emeritus of Mother of God Parish, Burnham, and was a resident of Presence St. Benedict Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Niles.

Born in Chicago, he attended St. Casimir School, Quigley Preparatory Seminary and the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary before being ordained in 1955.

Father Guz served as assistant pastor at St. Constance (1955-1961); Holy Innocents (1961-1963); St. Monica (1963); St. Agnes (39th Street and Washtenaw Avenue) (1963-1967); and St. Francis of Assisi (Kostner Avenue) (1967-1975), before serving as administrator of St. Francis of Assisi from 1975 to 1980.

He was as named pastor of Mother of God Parish in Burnham in 1980. Father Guz retired in 2008 and remained at Mother of God until 2014.

Father Guz is survived by a sister, Phyllis Kenyeri.

Bishop John McNabb, an Augustinian, died Feb. 26. Bishop McNabb, 90, was the first bishop of the Diocese of Chulucanas. Peru, and one the last three living U.S. bishops who took part in the Second Vatican Council.

Bishop McNabb was born in Beloit, Wisconsin. He professed first vows as an Augustinian in 1945, final vows in 1948, and was ordained a priest in 1952.

He was a teacher and administrator at Mendel Catholic High School (1953-1959) before becoming province secretary (1959-1961). He returned to Mendel as principal (1962- 1964).

He was named prelate of the mission territory of Chulucanas in 1964 and participated in the last two sessions of the Second Vatican Council. He was ordained a bishop in 1967, and became the ordinary when Chulucanas was made a diocese in 1988.

He resided at St. Nicholas of Tolentine Monastery in Olympia Fields (2000-2002, 2006-2010).

He is survived by a sister, Janet Marelli.

Providence Sister Marilyn Rose (Margie Marie) Ginder, 86, died Feb. 21 in St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana.

An Indiana native, she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Providence in 1949 and professed final vows in 1956.

She taught school for 16 years before becoming director of a mental-health center and serving as a psychology professor in Indiana.

In the Archdiocese of Chicago, she taught at St. Leo (1951-1954) and St. Francis Borgia (1958-1962).

She is survived by her sister, Marilyn Simpson.

Sister of the Living Word Barbara (Josepha) Hawken, 81, died Feb. 20.

Born in Chicago, she entered the Sisters of Christian Charity in 1953. She joined the Sisters of the Living Word in 1991.

She ministered in education in Minnesota and Ohio as well as in the Archdiocese of Chicago, where she served at St. Teresa of Avila; St. Gregory; St. Mary, Riverdale; Josephinum High School; St. Hedwig; and St. Robert Bellarmine.

Sister Barbara is survived by her sisters Janet Doyle and Diane Larson.

Divine Word Father Bernard Fisher, 97, died Feb. 13 in Techny. He was a missionary in Papua New Guinea.

Father Fisher was a priest for 70 years and in religious vows for 75. He taught at Divine Word seminaries in the United States before being sent to Papua New Guinea in 1948.

In his nearly five decades there, he traveled to remote villages, opened catechetical centers and taught business and agriculture, among other assignments. He also served as a vocation recruiter in the United States.

He returned to the United States permanently in 1992 at age 75. He taught himself desktop publishing and printed more than 30 books and booklets. He moved to Techny in 1992.

Sister of Notre Dame de Namur Lorraine Oswald, 83, died Feb. 9 in Cincinnati. A native of Chicago, she graduated from Notre Dame High School for Girls in 1951 and was a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur for 57 years.

Sister Lorraine, known as “Ozzie,” taught at St. Peter Canisius School (1966-1967) and later was a member of the St. Robert Bellarmine Community for 27 of the 29 years she taught in Villa Park, Illinois.

In addition to teaching, Sister Lorraine used the carpentry skills she learned from her father as volunteer with Cincinnati Housing Partners, helping renovate homes that were made available to low-income, first home buyers.

Sister of Notre Dame de Namur and World War II veteran Marguerite (Marguerite Michael) McHugh, 93, died Feb. 6 in Reading, Ohio.

A native of Cincinnati, she entered religious life in 1954 and made final vows in 1962.

Sister Marguerite had many ambitions in her school years. In 1942 she joined the WAVES and became a gunnery instructor at the U.S. Naval Station in Norfolk, Virginia. After the war, while discerning her vocation, she remained active with Catholic War Veterans. In 2012 she was inducted into the Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame.

She served in educational and social-service ministries in Ohio and Illinois. In the Archdiocese of Chicago, she served at St. Robert Bellarmine (1958-1963).

Sister Marguerite is survived by her youngest sister, Margie.

Providence Sister Regina Shaughnessy, 94, died Feb. 4 in St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana.

An Indiana native, Sister Regina entered the Sisters of Providence in 1949 and professed final vows in 1957. She taught high school English, worked in administrative-service positions then joined the staff of the congregation archives.

In the Archdiocese of Chicago, she taught at St. Columbkille High School (1952- 1956).