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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…