Catholic Diocese Tucson

8 CATHOLIC OUTLOOK JUNE/JULY 2019 ADRIAN, Michigan — Sister Beverly McEachin, formerly known as Sister Marie Neil McEachin, died April 26, at the Dominican Life Center. She was 90 and in the 72nd year of her religious profession in the Adrian Dominican Sisters. Born in Detroit to Neil and Mildred (Piche) McEachin, she graduated from St. Paul High School in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. She earned a bachelor’s in biology from Siena Heights College in Adrian and a master’s in guidance from the University of Detroit in Detroit. She spent 30 years ministering in elementary and secondary schools and in school counseling in Illinois and Michigan, with a stint teaching at St. Anthony Catholic School in Casa Grande (1951-54). She was also financial director for 11 years at Samaritan Health Center in Detroit, and the director of Annual Donations for the Adrian Dominican Sisters’ Development Office for four years. She became a resident of the Dominican Life Center in 2015. She is survived by sisters Marilyn Helhowski of Mesa, and Susan Nichols of Clinton Township, Michigan; and brothers Patrick McEachin of Connelly Springs, North Carolina, and Robert McEachin of Caseville, Michigan. Her body was received May 2 in the Life Center’s St. Catherine Chapel, followed the next day with the Mass of Christian Burial. Burial followed in the community cemetery. Memorial gifts may be made to Adrian Dominican Sisters, 1257 East Siena Heights Drive, Adrian, Michigan, 49221. Salvatorian Father John Pantuso, 79, from Most Holy Trinity Parish in Tucson, died April 26. Born Oct. 20, 1939, in Brooklyn, New York, to Carlo and Mary (Imbelloni) Pantuso, he joined the Society of the Divine Savior in 1960. He left active ministry in 1968 and married Joanne America in Maryland. Both joined the Lay Salvatorians and lived in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, during the 1980s and ’90s. During that time, he was a writer and editor for Wisconsin Right-to- Life and for the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. They moved to Tucson in 1996. Joanne died in 2002. In 2004, he rejoined the Salvatorians and four years later, the Vatican restored him to active ministry. He served at the society’s headquarters in Rome and in parishes in Wisconsin and Tennessee. In 2015, he retired to Tucson, and assisted at Most Holy Trinity Parish. He is survived by sons Joe and Bobby and their spouses; a sister, Geraldine Del Priore of Tolland, Connecticut; and seven grandchildren. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated May 3 in Most Holy Trinity Church. Sister Beverly McEachin, OP Father John Pantuso, SDS Carmelite Priory at Salpointe Catholic High School (1994-99) before being assigned pastor of St. Cyril Parish in Tucson in 2008. During his time at St. Cyril’s, he was involved in a program that worked with preparing inmates for the sacraments of initiation. He served on the Presbyteral Council representing the Pima East Vicariate. Father Balduck Born Aug. 21, 1935, in Detroit toWilliam F. and Anne (Murphy) Balduck, he attended local Catholic elementary and high schools before enrolling at the University of Detroit, administered by the Sisters of Mercy. He graduated with a bachelors, studying English and Education, in 1965. He entered the novitiate for the Capuchin Friars in the Province of St. Joseph in 1966, making his solemn profession on Dec. 18, 1967. He studied theology at St. Francis Seminary in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He graduated with a bachelor’s June 2, 1968. He was ordained a Capuchin on June 9, 1973, at the community motherhouse in Mount Calvary, Wisconsin, by Bishop Salvador Schlaefer, a Capuchin serving in Bluefields, Nicaragua. Following ordination, he served in parishes in Wisconsin and Montana, before spending 10 years in communities in Nicaragua and Panama. In 1992, he returned to Detroit to serve a year as superior at St. Bonaventure Monastery, before a stint as a retreat master and pastor in Saginaw, Michigan. In 2001, he moved to Casa San Jose, a Capuchin residence in Tucson, in semi-retirement. He served as administrator briefly at St. Therese, Patagonia, and Blessed Sacrament, Mammoth, 2007-09. “I enjoyed being in Patagonia where I was the parish administrator at St. Therese of Lisieux. I liked the mountains, the view, the running water and the lake and especially the people,” he said in an interview. “I have also served in Nicaragua during a civil war there and in Panama. I’ve been an itinerant priest. I’ve enjoyed moving around. I’m grateful to God for the call to ministry.” Father Crehan Born Nov. 1, 1947, in Detroit, he was ordained as a Franciscan by Chicago Archbishop Joseph Bernardin, in Dayton, Ohio on June 7, 1975. He came to the Diocese of Tucson on Oct. 1, 2016 and was appointed administrator of Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish in Tombstone on July 1, 2017. RETIREMENTS continued from page 7 By MICHAEL BROWN Managing Editor “We believe this will be a model for the rest of the country,” said philanthropist Humberto Lopez, as he toured the Gospel Rescue Mission’s Center of Opportunity, a former Radisson Hotel/Holiday Inn his foundation purchased and delivered to the homeless-serving non-profit. Lopez and his wife, Czarina, were joined by Bishop Edward J. Weisenburger May 30 on a tour and blessing of the facility, located at 4550 S. Palo Verde Road in Tucson. The property was purchased in 2018 by the H.S. Lopez Family Foundation. Since then, the main building and other structures underwent significant renovation. The facility began accepting homeless in late May with more entering in June. The renovation was a collaborative effort with El Rio Community Health Center and La Frontera Arizona, which will provide physical and mental health services. Other modifications will house worksites for social service agencies such as Pima County One Stop, Sullivan Jackson Employment Center and Arizona at Work for job training, resume writing, access to government services and dental treatment. Prior to the tour Lopez talked about why he decided to offer the site, complete with a 99-year, $1-a-year lease to Gospel Rescue Mission. “The shelters they run are first class,” he said. “The people there are treated with dignity and respect.” Also, Gospel Rescue Mission is a non-profit that is sustained entirely by private donations; it receives no public funding, he said. By having all the resources in one location, his hope is to reduce the number of homeless by gradually integrating them into the workforce and transitional housing, he said. Philanthropist Lopez and bishop tour new facility for homeless Catholic Outlook photo by Michael Brown Bishop Edward J. Weisenburger thanks Humberto Lopez after blessing the new Gospel Rescue Mission facility May 30.