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Deacon Yekaldo served 23 years in St. Paul and Woodbury

Deacon Fred Yekaldo, who ministered for 22 years at St. Ambrose in Woodbury and nearly a year at Blessed Sacrament in St. Paul, died surrounded by family April 15. He was 90.

Deacon Masla dies at 94 after serving in Woodbury and Sacramento, California

Deacon John Masla, who served about a decade in the permanent diaconate — including nearly two years at St. Ambrose in Woodbury before retiring from active ministry, and eight years in Sacramento, California — died April 3. He was 94.

Father Martin: ‘Scripture scholar,’ talented organist, composer

Father William “Bill” Martin hired Denny Farrell in 2007 as parish administrator at Guardian Angels in Oakdale — nine years after the priest joined...

A priest for more than 60 years, Father Leonard Siebenaler was from family of religious vocations

Father Leonard Siebenaler, a native of New Trier who ministered nearly 64 years as a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, died Jan. 16 in Hastings, where he had been living in retirement. He was 89.

Father Brandes remembered for love of the outdoors and the priesthood

Throughout most of his life, Father John Brandes loved spending time outdoors, especially at a family cabin in northern Minnesota and in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. The priest who considered wooded regions of northern Minnesota his “happy place” died Jan. 10 at age 96. 

Former UST and Cretin-Derham Hall baseball coach Dennis Denning dies

Former Cretin-Derham Hall and University of St. Thomas baseball coach Dennis Denning died Nov. 15 at age 76. 

Sister Mary Madonna Ashton remembered for strong leadership, faith

The state of Minnesota’s first woman and non-physician commissioner of health, president and CEO of a major hospital, and delegate for religious in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis — Sister Mary Madonna Ashton was all those things and more, colleagues, fellow religious and a family member recall.

First Black man ordained a permanent deacon in Minnesota dies at 84

Deacon Fred Johnson, who served St. Peter Claver in St. Paul for all of his nearly 25 years in ministry, died Oct. 1 at age 84.
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