Sr. Ma. Concepción Masramon Llimós, O. Carm., a member of the Monastery of the Presentación de Maria Santísima in Barcelona, Spain, died on March 7, 2002. She was 84 years old. She made her First Profession on November 12, 1944.

Sr. Marie Macháčová, O. Carm. 
March 12, 2002

Sr. Merlina Bernadette Bulangis, Carm.O.L., died in a bus accident on Easter Monday, April 1, 2002, in the Philippines. She was travelling to a retreat in Mindanao when the bus fell down a cliff. She was 33 years old and is the first death in the Congregation.

Emmanuel Siswanto Poespowardojo, O. Carm.
April 13, 2002

Fr. Emmanuel Siswanto Poespowardojo, O.Carm., a member of the Indonesian Province, died on Saturday, April 13, 2002 in Indonesia.
He was born in 1929. He served in a variety of ministries, including as Provincial of his province from 1973-1979 and as the head of schools. He retired as headmaster of St. Albertus High School, Dempo in 1997 after 30 years but was reappointed in December 2001.

He was ordained in 1959 together with his older brother, Fr. Djanardono Poespowardojo, O. Carm.

Br. Franco Ponza of the Italian Province, born in Rome in 1930, died on April 14, 2002 in the Carmelite residence at Traspontina (Rome). He had suffered from various illnesses for the last several years.

Tadeusz Stuleblak, O. Carm.
April 15, 2002

Fr. Tadeusz Stuleblak, O.Carm., a member of the Polish Province, died after a long illness on April 15, 2002 in Lublin. He was 69 years old.

Fr. Theo (Theodorus, Antonius Theresia) Meijerink, O. Carm., died April 17, 2002, in Zwolle (The Netherlands), after an illness of several weeks.
Born July 24 1923 in Zwolle, professed in October 1946, and ordained in 1951, he worked as a missionary in Indonesia (1953-1986) and then as a parish priest in Haarle until January 2001. He was a pastor who focused attention on the young people. He was the leader of "Legio Mariae" in Malang. In the last weeks of his illness he prayed to the Lord "I wait for the Lord, the One whole waits for me." He had a particular devotion to Mary, Mother of Carmel.

Sr. M. Rita Giannone
April 27, 2002

Sr. M. Rita Giannone, died Saturday evening, April 27, 2002 in the Aurelia Hospital of Rome. She made her profession of temporary vows on the Feast of St. Teresa of Avila, October 15, 1939. She was 86 years old. 

Richard J. Nagle, O. Carm.
April 29, 2002

Richard Nagle, a former Assistant General to the Order from 1965-1971, died Monday, April 29, 2002 in a Carmelite nursing home in West Palm Beach, FL (USA).
He was born in 1911, professed first vows in 1933 and ordained priest in 1937. He also served as Prior Provincial of the St. Elias Province from 1961-1965 when he was elected Assistant General.

Edmund McCaffrey, O. Carm.
May 2, 2002

Fr. Edmund McCaffrey, O. Carm., a member of the American Province of St. Elias, died on May 2, 2002 in New York City, NY (USA). He was born in Oswego, NY on December 29, 1920, made his Simple Profession in September 1947, and was ordained in 1950.