Visiting: Friday(10/16) 2-4 & 7-9 PM Mass: Saturday(10/17) 10:30 AM @ Saint Ephrem's Church Cemetery: Green Wood Cemetery (Brooklyn, NY) - - - COMPLIMENTARY VALET PARKING AVAILABLE - - - Reverend Msgr. Howard B. Basler, a senior priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn in residence at the Bishop Mugavero Residence. Monsignor Basler was born on April 19, 1932 in Brooklyn, New York, was ordained to the Priesthood on May 31, 1958, and died Tuesday, October 13, 2015, at the Bishop Mugavero Residence. Monsignor Basler served the Diocese of Brooklyn as Pastor of Saint Andrew the Apostle (Brooklyn) as well as Parochial Vicar of Saint Andrew Avellino (Flushing) and Saint Matthias. He also served offices such as the Office of Catholic Education, Catholic Charities' Office of Social Action, Vocations Office, Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Diocesan Priests Senate, and as Faculty of Cathedral College. In June 1984, he was named Prelate of Honor to His Holiness.