St. Mary’s Cemetery, Hanover Twp., has become a diocesan cemetery as one of many ongoing changes driven by the closing or merging of parishes in the Diocese of Scranton.
The native of Puerto Rico and U.S. Army veteran served primarily in Our Lady of Fatima and St. Charles Borromeo parishes in Bensalem, and his family set roots in St. Mark Parish, Bristol. He and his wife Inocencia were married 51 years.