Obituary in Democrat and Chronicle

Webster: Thursday, January, 29, 2015, age 82. Predeceased by his parents, Michael and Helen. Survived by his sister, Helen (Art) Melville; niece, Molly (Andy) Hill; nephews, Arthur (Elizabeth) Melville, Peter (Kim) Melville; many cousins and friends. Thank you to his secial friends John Machand Jr. and family, John Crosby and family, Joe Darby and Bernard Heroux. Father Gerard was a priest 56 years serving in the Diocese of Rochester.

A Mass of Christian Burial 9:00 AM, Saturday February 7, 2015 at Holy Spirit Church, 1355 Hatch Rd., Webster. Interment Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. Donations in Father’s memory may be directed to Mercy Center, 1437 Blossom Rd, Rochester NY 14610.

Obituary in the Catholic Courier (Jennifer Burke)

Father Gerard McMahon, a longtime parish priest, died Jan. 29, 2015. He was 82.

Father McMahon grew up in St. Monica and St. John the Evangelist parishes in Rochester and attended the parishes’ school. He also attended Aquinas Institute, St. Andrew’s Seminary and St. Bernard’s Seminary, all in Rochester. He was ordained by Bishop James E. Kearney on June 5, 1959, at Sacred Heart Cathedral.

He then served as assistant pastor at St. Anthony of Padua in Rochester (1959); Our Lady of Mercy in Greece (1959-60); St. Mary of the Lake in Ontario (1960-69); and St. Mary in Corning (1969-75). He served as associate pastor at Corpus Christi Parish in Rochester from 1975-76 before becoming pastor at St. Patrick Parish in Moravia in 1976. He led that parish for nine years before becoming pastor of St. Gabriel Parish in Hammondsport and St. Patrick Parish in Prattsburgh in 1985.

He left those parishes in 1993 to take a temporary assignment in the Diocese of Scranton, Pa., where he served as administrator for several parishes. In 1998 he retired and returned to Rochester, where he lived at Our Lady of Victory Parish. He later moved to Church of the Holy Spirit in Penfield, where he lived and served as needed for approximately nine years. He later moved to the McAuley Residence at the Sisters of Mercy Motherhouse in Brighton.

Bishop Salvatore R. Matano will celebrate Father McMahon’s funeral Mass Feb. 7, 2015, at 9 a.m. at Church of the Holy Spirit. Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Rochester.