JOHNSTOWN, PA - [Diocesan Chancery] -- With profound sadness the Diocesan Chancery announces that Pani Dolores Zuder reposed in the Lord on January 13, 2025.

Born on September 14, 1938, in Johnstown PA, she was the fourth of eight living children to be brought into the world by Sotero and Helen (Machik) Rocha, and she spent the next 86 years finding and making her way in it.

JOHNSTOWN, PA - [Diocesan Chancery] -- With profound sadness the Diocesan Chancery announces that + Very Rev. Fr. Michael Miklos,  reposed in the Lord on January 2, 2025 at the age of 85.

Father Michael was born on December 3, 1939 to Michael and Anna Miklos in Wilpen, PA. He grew up in Rankin PA and entered the Air Force after graduating in 1957. He served 21 years and earned the rank of Master Sargent & was a Master Instructor  in bomb navigation and retired in 1978. After retirement, he became a computer engineer at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, VA.

JOHNSTOWN, PA - [Diocesan Chancery] -- With profound sadness the Diocesan Chancery announces that John D. Deignan, the Father of Pani Bonnie Kovalak fell asleep in the Lord  peacefully surrounded by his family on January 1, 2025.  

John was born and raised in Elizabeth, NJ. He is survived by his wife, Carole of 57 years of marriage, five daughters, twenty four grandchildren, brother Thomas, and sister Margaret. John was the principal of Harmony Elementary School in Middletown for 34 years before his retirement in 2002. He was active in his church and will always be loved and remembered by his family, friends, and the numerous lives he impacted. 

JOHNSTOWN, PA - [Diocesan Chancery] -- With profound sadness the Diocesan Chancery announces that Pani Joan Mahler, the wife of the Rev. Fr. Daniel Mahler reposed in the Lord on Saturday December 28, 2024

Pani Joan Susanne Mahler, age 80, was born on October 3, 1944, in Bridgeport, CT to Michael and Anna (Kranjak) Sovich.

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In the 2024 Summer Camp article we talked a lot about memory and what good memories from Camp can do for campers and staff alike.  A truly good memory from Camp (really from anything) can “feed” a person for a lifetime and lift them up again and again each time that memory is recalled.  The completion of the Camp’s Business Wing remodel, newly dedicated as the Polanichka Wing in loving memory of Very Rev. Protopresbyter Michael and Pani Eleanor Polanichka, is something that helped Camp, and those involved in the project, remember two people and their family who were dedicated to the Camp and the Camp’s ministry even before there was a Camp Nazareth.  Given the stories we heard about Fr. Michael and Pani Eleanor, it is safe to say that without both of their efforts, there would be no Camp Nazareth as we know it today.