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Yorktown High School Basketball Player Wins Gold Medal At Maccabiah Games
A Northern Westchester high school basketball player won a gold medal at an event in Israel featuring athletes from around the world.
Justin Price, a junior guard for the Yorktown High School varsity basketball team, was among the estimated 10,000 athletes from 80 countries who took part in the Maccabiah Games in July, the Yorktown Central School District announced on Monday, Aug. 1.
The games took place from Tuesday, July 12, through Tuesday, July 26, in Israel, and were open to Jewish athletes from all around the world, the district said.
President Joe Biden also attended the openi…
Lorraine Therese Beinkafner, Maryknoll Sister For 73 Years, Dies
Sister Lorraine Therese Beinkafner, M.M. died on Friday, Oct. 18, at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Maryknoll. She was 90 years old and had been a Maryknoll Sister for 73 years.
Lorraine was born in Albany on Nov. 23, 1928, to Mary (Brust) Beinkafner and Charles J. Beinkafner. She had two sisters and one brother, Marjorie Ann, Virginia and Paul; all of whom have predeceased her.
She attended Holy Names Academy in Albany from 1942 through 1946. After graduating, she entered the Maryknoll Sisters Novitiate in Pennsylvania at the Venard on Oct. 5, 1946 (from her home Parish of St. Thomas in D…
Sister Patricia Ann Maher, Maryknoll Sister For 71 Years, Dies
Sister Patricia Ann Maher died on March 27, at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Maryknoll. She was 92 years old and had been a Maryknoll Sister for 71 years.
Patricia was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on January 14, 1927, to Helen Mae (Crist) Maher and Joseph P. Maher. She had two brothers, Gerald and Joseph, all of whom have predeceased her; she is survived by her niece.
In 1945, she graduated from Immaculata High School in Detroit. After graduation, she worked as a clerk in Saks Fifth Avenue in Detroit and Bell Telephone Co. in Harrisburg. On October 30, 1947, Patricia entered the Maryk…
Sister Frances Mary Horan, Maryknoll Sister for 75 Years Dies
Sister Frances Mary Horan, missioner to Panama, died on March 1, at the Maryknoll Sisters Center, in Maryknoll.
She was born in Philadelphia on April 8, 1924, to Isabelle A. (Hart) Horan and Daniel A. Horan. She was baptized Frances Mary at St. John the Baptist Church, in Philadelphia. She had two sisters, Marie and Anna and seven brothers: Robert, William, Eugene, Daniel, James, Frances and Joseph. Her parents and all of her siblings have predeceased her.
In 1942, Frances graduated from St. John the Baptist High School in Philadelphia. After graduation, she worked at the U.S.A. Gover…
Madeline Cecilia McHugh, Longtime Maryknoll Sister
OSSINING, N.Y.-- Sister Madeline Cecilia McHugh died on Jan. 16 at the age of 97.
McHugh was a Maryknoll Sister for 78 years. She was born in Elizabeth, N.J. on Nov. 9, 1920 to Mary (Serafin) McHugh and Matthew McHugh. She had two brothers: John and Matthew, Jr. and four sisters: Clare, Mary, Rita and Rose, all who predeceased.
McHugh entered the Maryknoll Sisters Community in Maryknoll, NY from Blessed Sacrament Parish in Elizabeth, NJ on June 10, 1939. At her reception into the Congregation, she received the religious name Sister Alma Therese and made her First Profession of Vows on Jan. …
