Father Knute Kinross, OFM

Franciscan Father Knute Kinross, a native of Cincinnati, died July 12 at the age of 86. He spent most of his 57 years as a priest in parish ministry in Missouri, New Mexico, Kansas, Texas, Illinois and Ohio.

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Father Knute Kinross

Norbert (Knute) Kinross was educated at St. Leo Elementary School, Elder High School and St. Francis High School Seminary. He entered the friars' novitiate at St. Anthony Shrine in 1942 and professed his simple vows a year later. He continued his education at Duns Scotus College in Southfield, Mich., professed solemn vows in 1946 and was ordained in 1951 at Holy Family Theologate in Oldenburg, Ind.

His first assignment was as a teacher at Roger Bacon High School. In the next 56 years he departed from parish ministry only once, to assume a Newman Center chaplaincy in New Mexico. Father Kinross retired to Mercy Community at Winton Woods as resident chaplain in 2000.

He is survived by a sister, Rita Engelhardt of Cincinnati. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated July 15 at Mercy Community at Winton Woods.

Father Varin Slacke, OFM

Franciscan Father Varin Slacke, a native of St. Bernard, died Sept. 2 from complications following hip surgery. He was 91 and had been living in retirement at Mercy Franciscan Terrace in Cincinnati.

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Father Varin Slacke

The first 32 years of his priestly ministry were devoted to parish work in Texas, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Kansas. He served as associate pastor at old St. George Parish in Cincinnati from 1948-1951.

Father Slacke began 14 years of ministry as a hospital chaplain in 1976, stationed in Houma, La., and Louisville, Ky. His last formal ministry before retirement in 1993 was as chaplain for the Sisters of St. Francis in Oldenburg, Ind.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Sept. 6 at St. Clare Convent Chapel at Mercy Franciscan Terrace. Interment followed in St. Mary Cemetery, St. Bernard.

Father Bob Bond

A Mass of Christian Burial for Glenmary Father Bob Bond was held on Sept. 10 at St. Matthias Church in Forest Park. He died on Sept. 1 at age 75 at Hospice of Cincinnati in Blue Ash.

A native of Cincinnati, Father Bond graduated from then-Purcell High School. He entered the Glenmary Home Missioners in 1950 and was ordained in 1960. Through the years his ministry included serving as an associate pastor and pastor at parishes in North Carolina, Oklahoma, Virginia and Kentucky. He was known for projects in which he repaired donated computers and gave them to local families and charities, along with teaching programming skills to children and adults.

Father Bond also served as editor of Glenmary Challenge, the missioners' magazine, and as a seminary faculty member in Cincinnati and St. Meinrad, Ind.

His brothers Donald, Thomas and Edward survive him. Burial was at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Montgomery.

Sister Mary Angus Barry

Sister of Charity Mary Angus Barry died Sept. 14 at the age of 94 in Mother Margaret Hall at the Sisters of Charity motherhouse, Mount St. Joseph. A native of Denver, Colo., Sister Mary Angus entered religious life in 1932, serving 76 years as a Sister of Charity.

She earned a bachelor's degree from the College of Mount St. Joseph and a master's degree from the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

Sister Mary Angus served for 61 years in the field of nursing. In 1937, she began a two-year ministry as head nurse at Good Samaritan Hospital. She later served at Good Samaritan Hospital, Dayton, for one year before returning to Cincinnati's Good Sam. At hospitals in New Mexico, Colorado and Michigan, she was an operating room supervisor, director of nursing education and services, director of in-service education and historian.

She retired in 1991 and 1995 returned to the Sisters of Charity motherhouse in Cincinnati to participate in the ministry of prayer.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Sept. 17 in the Immaculate Conception Chapel at the motherhouse. Burial was in the Sisters of Charity cemetery.