After moving to the Berkshires, she returned to full-time work as a development associate at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Costelloe, tax director at RCA, who eventually became her husband.
She worked as a research associate for John F. Frances Martin Costelloe ’46, of Brattleboro, Vt., formerly of West Haven, Conn., and Newton, Mass. He is survived by nine nieces and nephews. He was a member of the American Harp Society and the Episcopal Actors Guild of New York. After retiring in 1980, he served as minister of the Church of the Holy Cross in Middletown, R.I., from 1982 to 1991. His poem “The Pleas of a Patriot” appeared in a 1996 volume of the National Library of Poetry in Owings, Md.
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Known as the “Singing Preacher,” newspapers wrote about him and television’s Crossroads series filmed an episode entitled “The Singing Preacher” in 1963. He was one of the last chaplains to serve Ellis Island detainees before the facility closed in 1954. Though he could not read music, he played various instruments, most notably the harp, and would perform along the New York City waterfront sidewalks and Manhattan Beach, or he could be found singing and walking down Wall Street with many followers. There, in addition to his ecclesiastical duties, he would offer music therapy to convalescing merchant sailors. In 1949 he was assigned to Seamen’s Church Institute of New York City for six years. He was an ordained minister who served the Episcopal dioceses of New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island.
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