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Catholic San Francisco
January 21, 2011
On The Where You Live By Tom Burke Let’s warm up to Catholic Schools Week with thanks and congratulations to Janet Dyer Wildey who has served for 32 years as administrative assistant and admissions coordinator for preschool and kindergarten at Sacred Heart Schools in Atherton. Janet’s late mom, Stella, walked before her as a school Janet Dyer Wildey secretary there. “Every day I come to school, I thank God for allowing me to work here,” Janet said. “It is a great privilege to be at this school.” After more than three decades on the job, Janet looks upon Sacred Heart as a second home. “Our mission is to provide an excellent education with strong values; it starts at preschool and continues all the way through high school,” Janet said. “It’s wonderful to see how successful and happy the students are as they graduate and how many of them come back as young parents, wanting their own children to have the same experience.”… Our Lady of Mercy School’s class of
Father Dave Ghiorso, pastor, St. Charles Parish, baptizes cousins, Luca Elias Gordon and Gabriel John Reynolds, at the newly remodeled San Carlos church Dec. 11. Proud parents are Michalis and Erin Bisordi Gordon and Dan and Dana Bisordi Reynolds. The sister-moms are graduates of St. Charles School. Thanks to grandparents, Marilyn and John Bisordi, for the good news.
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Happy 50 years married Dec. 17 to Fern and Marina Maza, longtime parishioners of Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame and here with their children and grandchildren at a party commemorating the milestone.
’69 had a 40-or-so year reunion in October. Chow at Millbrae’s Fiddler’s Green was the beginning of what classmate Kelli McKeever Lynch called, “an absolutely wonderful evening of catching up, telling stories, and remembering wonderful days at OLM – Father Power was smiling from above.” The reference of course is to the late Msgr. Richard Power, pastor at OLM from 1954 to 1981. Among the almost two dozen revelers were Kelli and Paul Havorka, Greg Barca, Beth Cornwall, Mike Murray, Bernie Fuhrman, Marian Biccu, Cyndi Nowicki, Karin Fabionovich, Peggy Lucey, Sharon Burns, Terry Swanson, Bob Cremen, Loraine Baldocchi, Nancy O’Donnell, Maureen Bennett, Susan Sunseri, Cathy Davis, Chuck Meagher, Carol Tonelli, Joe McKenna, Bob Bastida and Tommy Meehan. .… Happy 70 years married Jan. 19 to Marina and Ed Ciabattari. The couple was married at Sts. Peter and Paul Church in North Beach and raised their family in Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Daly City. Son, John, and his wife, Mary Ann, a former teacher at Our Lady Salesian Father Armand Oliveri rolls into the Columbus Day Parade of 2010 in North Beach. Now 90, Father Armand receives shouts and waves throughout the parade having baptized and married a large portion of the people he passes. With him from left are YLI Council #613 officers, Mike Amato, Bob Bartoli and Tom Fourie.
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of Loretto School in Novato, are retired. Son, Bill, teaches at Marin Catholic High School and his wife, Joan, recently retired from a teaching position there. Marina and Ed enjoy visits with family, that now includes five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, and continue to attend senior club meetings…. Happy 60 years as husband and wife to Nancy and Will Massetani, longtime members of St. Elizabeth Parish in San Francisco, whose anniversary is Jan. 21. “They are loved by many and we are all proud to celebrate this wonderful marriage,” said daughter, Chris in a note to this column. “It is a testament to their generation of dedication and love.” Family will pray with and for the couple at a special Mass Jan. 23. Capuchin Father Flavian Welstead will preside. .… This is an empty space without you. E-mail items and electronic pictures – jpegs at no less than 300 dpi – to burket@sfarchdiocese.org or mail them to Street, One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109. Don’t forget to add a follow-up phone number. Thank you. My phone number is (415) 614-5634.
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