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OBITS FOR 10/24/97 (Nagel; Lydem; Glander; Bishop Curtis)

Rose Rich Nagel

Rose Rich Nagel, 83, mother of John Nagel and Joan Lebron of Sandy Hook, died

on October 19.

Born in Bridgeport, Mrs Nagel was a lifelong city resident. Prior to raising a

family, she graduated from Yale New Haven School of Nursing and had worked as

a registered nurse at Bridgeport Hospital.

She was the widow of Robert B. Nagel.

Besides her children she is survived by daughter-in-law Joyce Nagel and

son-in-law Jose Lebron; seven grandchildren, Heidi, Robert, Mark, Gina, Holly,

Marcy and Nicole; two great-granddaughters, Brittany and Katelyn; and several

nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were October 23 from the Louis A. Abriola & Son Funeral Home,

426 East Washington Avenue, Bridgeport, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial

in St Mary's Church. Interment in St Michael's Cemetery, Stratford.

Ross A. Lydem

Ross A. Lydem, 60, brother of Newtown Police Lt David Lydem, died October 20

at Hospice in Branford. He was the husband of Corinne Coyle Lydem of Ansonia.

Mr Lydem was born on February 5, 1937, in St Albans, Vt., a son of the late

Arthur E. and Jeanne Jacques Lydem.

A resident of Ansonia for the past 27 years, he had been employed at Rolock,

Inc, in Fairfield for over 30 years until his retirement in 1990. He was also

a veteran of the US Marine Corps and was a communicant of the Church of the

Assumption, Ansonia. Besides his wife and brother, he is survived by two sons,

Patrick A. Lydem and his wife, Susan, of Naugatuck and Torrance N. Lydem of

Virginia; three other brothers, Leonard Lydem of Shelton, Rique Lydem of

Oklahoma, and Gerald Lydem of North Carolina; also several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were held October 23 from the Spinelli-Malerba Funeral Home,

62 Beaver Street, Ansonia, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial from the

Church of the Assumption, Ansonia. Entombment was in Mount St Peter's Garden

Mausoleum, Derby.

Contributions in memory of Mr Lydem may be made to hospice through the funeral

directors.

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Robert J. Glander

Robert J. Glander, 55, husband of Jane Welsh Glander, died October 20 at his

home on Pond Brook Road.

Mr Glander was born in New York City on January 11, 1942, a son of Louise

Farina Proffitt of Stamford and the late George Proffitt.

He was a graduate of Pace University and received his master's degree in

security administration from the University of New Haven.

He served in the United States Marines. He was employed as a police officer of

the Stamford Police Department from 1963 until his retirement as sergeant in

1981.

He was the recipient of the Medal of Valor, the Combat Cross and numerous

citations of bravery.

After his retirement from the Stamford Police Department, he had held

positions as director of security in retail organizations.

He was a former adjunct professor of security and police science at Trident

Technical College in Charleston, S.C.

In recent years, he had dedicated his time to coaching numerous youth sports

in Newtown including baseball, softball, soccer, basketball, and football. He

was also manager of Western Connecticut Youth Hockey Peewee team.

In addition to his wife and mother, he is survived by three sons, Jason and

Matthew Glander of Newtown and Robert Glander II of Stamford; two daughters,

Christine Glander of Newtown and Lori Glander-Covino of Stamford; a brother,

Charles W. Proffitt of Stamford; three sisters, Cherbina Martinez of Stamford,

Anna M. Proffitt of Stamford and Maria Glander of Bridgeport; two

grandchildren, several nieces, nephews, aunts and uncles.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Friday, October 24, at 10:30 am

in St Rose of Lima Church. Burial will be in St Rose Cemetery.

Calling hours will be Thursday, October 23, 4-8 pm in the Honan Funeral Home,

58 Main Street.

Contributions may be made to Newtown Babe Ruth, Inc, PO Box 133 Newtown, 06470

for a baseball camp scholarship to be established in memory of Mr Glander.

He will forever be remembered as husband, father, son, brother, coach, mentor,

and best friend. He will be missed.

Bishop Walter W. Curtis

The Most Rev Walter W. Curtis, who retired in 1988 after 27 years as head of

the Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport, died October 18 in St Joseph Manor in

Trumbull. He was 84.

A strong supporter of education, he launched a high school building program

for the diocese shortly after his installation as bishop in 1961. Immaculate

High School in Danbury, Kolbe-Cathedral High School in Bridgeport, and St

Joseph High School in Trumbull are the legacy of that program.

In the fall of 1963 Bishop Curtis founded Sacred Heart University as a

diocesan co-educational commuter college. Sacred Hart is now the third largest

Catholic university in New England.

He also established the Augustana Homes, now called Bishop Curtis homes, for

senior citizen housing. There are now seven Bishop Curtis homes operating in

Bethel, Bridgeport, Danbury, Fairfield, Greenwich, and Stamford. Two nursing

homes, Pope John Paul II Health Care Center in Danbury and St Camillus Health

Care Center in Stamford, also were founded by Bishop Curtis.

Over the years, he also held numerous positions with the Catholic hierarchy in

the United States. His last visit to Newtown was in July, when he attended the

Mass of Christian Burial celebrated for the Right Rev Walter R. Conroy, former

pastor of St Rose of Lima Church.

Bishop Curtis' body will lie in state at St Augustine Cathedral in Bridgeport

from 3 to 10 pm on Thursday, October 23. A memorial Mass will be celebrated at

7:30 pm that evening at St Augustine Cathedral by Msgr William J. Scheyd,

diocesan vicar general, with the homly delivered by Msgr Kevin W. Wallin and

with Bishop Curtis's successor, Bishop Edward M. Egan, presiding.

The funeral Mass will be celebrated on Friday, October 24, at noon, also at St

Augustine Cathedral. The celebrant will be Bishop Egan, with Msgr Andrew T.

Cusack, director of the National Institute for Clergy Formation at Seton Hall

University in New Jersey, delivering the homily, and Most Rev Daniel A.

Cronin, archbishop of Hartford, presiding. Burial will be in the priests'

Circle at St Michael Cemetery in Stratford.

Bishop Curtis is survived by one sister, Edna Feehan of Bridgewater, and by

nieces and nephews.