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OBITUARIES
October 23, 2018 | The Valley Catholic
R est in Peace
Sister Patricia Marie Mulpeters, PBVM
April 4, 1925 - October 9, 2018
Sister Patricia Ma-
rie Mulpeters, PBVM,
entered eternal life
on October 9 at the
Presentation Moth-
erhouse in San Fran-
cisco, CA. She was a
Sister of the Presenta-
tion for seventy-three years.
Born to William and Dorothy Kent-
zel Mulpeters on April 4, 1925 in San
Francisco, she was named Elizabeth
Patricia. She was predeceased by her
loving parents and her brother, James
Mulpeters. She now leaves her loving
Presentation Sisters and Associates, her
cousin Sister Anne Hennessy, CSJ, and
many she has ministered to and with
over the past seven plus decades.
After graduating from High School
in San Francisco, she went on to the
University of California in Berkeley
where in the day of World War II,
she majored in Political Science and
minored in economics, planning to
apply to the Law School. However,
upon graduating from UC, she entered
the Sisters of the Presentation and
began teaching at Presentation High
School, San Francisco. During the
summers, she went to Catholic Uni-
versity in Washington, DC to work on
curriculum, which assisted her in the
development of the Christian Family
Living Series in order to implement a
Christian philosophy of life and family
living for secondary female students
in the United States. She also received
a Master in Sociology from Duchesne
University. These degrees and creden-
tials would continue to assist her in the
education and formation of young high
school women and new members of the
Presentation Sisters.
Just when life might have leveled
off, a new challenge appeared and
she was appointed to various levels of
responsibility, including that of Supe-
rior General in the 1970’s, now termed
President of the Congregation.
Her talents and leadership were
readily recognized and she was elected
the Leader of the LCWR Region XIV
and served on key national committees.
In 1981, and for eighteen years
when the Diocese of San Jose was
established, Bishop Pierre DuMaine
asked her to head several administra-
tive departments successively as As-
sistant Chancellor, Chancellor, Vicar
for Pastoral Ministries as well as Vicar
for Religious.
In 1998 she again was called to Con-
gregational Leadership as Councilor.
This was followed by her appointment
as Director of Presentation Center, Los
Gatos until 2006. At this site, she was
instrumental in planning and seeing to
completion the construction of a Wel-
come Center containing a commercial
kitchen, large dining room, gift shop
and meeting rooms. It is classified as
a Leed Gold certified building–one of
the first in the area.
She once said that two of the greatest
honors she had received are the papal
Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Award and an
Honorary Doctorate from Santa Clara
University and added, “However, look-
ing back as a Presentation Sister, I am
profoundly grateful to God for the on-
going opportunity to grow in closeness
to Jesus, to serve God’s people with
whatever gifts I have, to be in a com-
munity of faith-filled zealous women,
and to have fun doing it.”
In 2011, Sister Patricia Marie moved
to the Presentation Motherhouse and
since that time had been engaged in
the Ministry of Prayer and visiting the
sick there.
Memorial contributions to the Sis-
ters of the Presentation are preferred
and can be sent to Sisters of the Pre-
sentation, Development Office, 281 Ma-
sonic Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94118.
Reverend Timothy James Kidney
Father Tim Kidney
was born in LaPorte,
Indiana, the son of
Joh n and Dolores
Kidney. He attended
Catholic elementary
schools in Illinois and
Minnesota. His first
two years of high school were in Minne-
sota; moving to California, he graduated
from Serra High School in San Mateo.
Father Kidney entered Saint Patrick’s
College Seminary in Mountain View in
1963, and did his theological studies at
Saint Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park.
He was ordained at Saint Mary’s Cathe-
dral in San Francisco on May 29, 1971, by
Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken.
After serving at Saint Justin Parish,
October 27, 1945 – October 13, 2018
Santa Clara, Father Kidney was associ-
ated with the Society of San Sulpice,
dedicated to the formation of future
priests. After earning a doctorate in
Moral Theology at the Catholic Uni-
versity of America, he was assigned to
the faculty at Saint Patrick’s Seminary
in Menlo Park, from 1976 until 1983,
becoming a priest of the newly estab-
lished Diocese of San Jose in 1981.
For a year, Father Kidney served as
Chaplain in Residence at Presentation
Center in Los Gatos, then as parochial
vicar at Most Holy Trinity Parish in San
Jose, and as Chaplain of the Newman
Center for Stanford University, located
at Saint Ann Chapel.
In 1987, Father Kidney was assigned
as Pastor of Saint Maria Goretti Parish
in San Jose. At the end of his term, he
was missioned to seminary formation
work for three years at Saint Dominic
Seminary in Lusaka. Returning to the
Diocese of San Jose, he was Pastor at
Saint Patrick Proto-Cathedral Parish
from 1996 until 1999, and worked for
the diocesan Office of Vocations from
1999 until 2000. He became Pastor of
Saint Cyprian Parish in Sunnyvale in
2000 and at Saint John Vianney Parish,
from 2004-2006.
When the Bishop of Montego Bay
requested help to train lay people in
roles of leadership, Father Kidney vol-
unteered to be sent to that Jamaican
diocese. He later served as Administra-
tor of Saint Joseph Parish in Mountain
View, a role he relinquished due to
failing health. Father Kidney retired
on July 1, 2010, eventually taking up
residence at the diocesan retirement
home for priests in Cupertino. Earlier
this year, he moved to Sunrise Villa in
the Evergreen area of San Jose.
Father Tim Kidney will long be
remembered as a ma n who was
straightforward in his ministry and in
communication. He touched the lives of
many through his parish assignments
and his work as seminary professor
and formator. He will also be remem-
bered for his great generosity and his
dedication to the work of the Church,
especially in areas of social justice.
A Funeral Mass was celebrated on
October 20 at Saint Francis of Assisi
Parish in San Jose.
Cale John Crowley, P.S.S.
June 10, 1943 – October 7, 2018
Cale John Crow-
ley was born in Bill-
i ngs, MT on June
10, 1943 to Cale and
Catherine (nee Al-
lard) Crowley. He
is survived by two
brot hers, William
and Daniel, and one sister, Mary.
Father Crowley was ordained for the
Diocese of Great Falls, MT on April 19,
1969, and then joined the Sulpicians.
He earned his PhD in philosophy at
the University of Notre Dame and
taught for many years at Saint Joseph’s
College in Mountain View. He spent
a short time at Theological College in
Washington, D.C. as the director of
the Basselin scholarship program for
studies in philosophy at the Catholic
University of America (1984-1988).
After teaching for nearly twenty years
in the U.S., Father Crowley joined the
early Sulpician pioneer missionaries
in Zambia. He spent nineteen years in
Africa before returning in 2011 to be-
come the Director of St. Charles Villa,
later called Villa Olier, where he served
as its Director for four years.
Father Crowley died from meta-
static lung cancer under hospice care
at Villa Olier on October 7, 2018 and
was buried in the Sulpician cemetery in
Catonsville, MD following the funeral
liturgy in the Chapel of Villa Olier on
October 12.