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Rev. Harold Erwin Buckley

Rev. Harold Buckley, Priest At Diocese Of Rockville Center, Sculptor, Dies Rev. Harold Buckley, Priest At Diocese Of Rockville Center, Sculptor, Dies
Rev. Harold Buckley, Priest At Diocese Of Rockville Center, Sculptor, Dies A retired priest who served as a pastor and college faculty member on Long Island and was a prolific sculptor has died. The Rev. Harold Erwin Buckley died Saturday, May 11. He was 94.  Buckley was born in Brooklyn on March 31, 1925, to a mother, Elizabeth, and a father, Jeremiah, both immigrants from County Kerry, Ireland.  He was the middle child in a family of five, his sister Elizabeth and brothers Jeremiah, Eugene, and Robert.  Buckley became interested in the priesthood as a teenager, went to Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception in 1942 and was ordained t…