Archdiocese of Newark death notices: July 2021
We remember and pray for our dearly departed clergy and men and women religious who died in June.
Sister Joseph Marian Hudson, S.C.
A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated June 8 at Holy Family Chapel in Convent Station, N.J. for Sister Joseph Marian Hudson, a Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth, who died on June 3, 2021.
Former ministry in Archdiocese of Newark: Our Lady of All Souls, East Orange, St. Catherine School, Glen Rock, St. Mary School, Nutley, St. Thomas School, Bloomfield. Sister was also administrator of Mother Seton Residence, Montclair, a staff member at Mt. St. Andrew’s, Paramus, librarian at Maywood Center for Health, Maywood, and volunteer at Saddle brook Nursing Home.
Reverend Peter Phong Cao Vo
A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated June 4 at the Congregation of the Mother of the Redeemer Retirement House in Carthage, MO. for Reverend Peter Phong Cao Vo, who died on June 3, 2021.
Father Peter Vo was a retired priest of the Archdiocese of Newark. He was 70 and was ordained for 32 years. He was the retired parochial vicar of Divine Mercy Parish in Rahway, N.J.
Reverend Monsignor Joseph P. Plunkett
A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated June 29 at St. Cecilia’s Church in Kearny, N.J. for Reverend Monsignor Joseph P. Plunkett, who died June 21, 2021.
Msgr. Joseph P. Plunkett was a retired priest of the Archdiocese of Newark and was pastor emeritus of Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Newark, N.J. He was born in 1933 and was ordained in 1960.
Sister Genevieve Marie Long, O.P.
A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at St. Aloysius Church, Caldwell, N.J., on June 28 for Sister Genevieve Marie Long, O.P., who died June 21, 2021.
A Dominican Sister of Caldwell for nearly 78 years, Sister Genevieve Marie, graduated from Caldwell University with a bachelor’s degree in Social Studies and Education.
She spent 27 years in the classrooms of St. Elizabeth, Linden; St. Catherine, Mobile, Alabama; St. Paul the Apostle, Irvington; St. Catherine, Cedar Grove; Holy Spirit, Union; St. John the Apostle, Clark; and St. Catharine, Spring Lake.
Sister Genevieve also served as the Congregation’s postulant director and as a nurse’s aide at St. Catherine of Siena Healthcare Center in Caldwell, N.J. For several years, she was a pastoral associate at St. Vincent Hospital in Montclair and, in Passaic, at Beth Israel Hospital and Passaic General Hospital. Most recently, she volunteered as a receptionist at Marian Manor.
Featured image: The altar surrounded by bronze statues of Mary and the 12 Apostles at Pentecost, as seen at Saint Gertrude Cemetery and Chapel Mausoleum of the Resurrection in Colonia, N.J. (Courtesy of Catholic Cemeteries of the Archdiocese of Newark)
