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Carla Hinton A member of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City clergy community has died of COVID-19.Clyde Grover, a deacon at St. Andrew Catholic Church in Moore and a longtime member of Bishop McGuinness High School, died Wednesday. He was 62.Diane Clay, the archdiocese's communications director, said two members of Grover's household had tested positive for the virus for about a week when he became ill and went to the hospital. She said he was in the hospital for six days before succumbing to the virus.Clay said the deacon's exposure to the virus was not related to a recent COVID-19 outbreak at Bishop McGuinness.Grover was a native of New York. He studied counseling at Boston University and pastoral ministry at Newman University in Wichita, Kansas. He retired from the U.S. Air Force.The Rev. Jack Feehily, pastor of St. Andrew, said Grover and his family had been members of the church since 1993 and he and his wife had the distinction of being the parents of an Oklahoma City archdiocese priest, the Rev. Danny Grover, pastor of Corpus Christi Catholic Church. Clyde Grover had served as a deacon of the church since 2013 and Feehily said he and his son were deacons at the same time for awhile — the older man an ordained permanent deacon and the younger man a transitional deacon on his way to becoming an ordained priest."So that was a unique thing — that doesn't happen very often," Feehily said.The priest said Clyde Grover also served as a chaplain for the Knights of Columbus and the St. Vincent de Paul Society."I would call him an outstanding husband and father. He was a great teacher and his preaching reflected really sound knowledge of church teaching and practice. His homilies, I believe, have always been very well received by me and, I think, the parish as a whole," Feehily said."He was just a great, great guy. Loved and admired by all. He's going to be very much missed."Feehily said not only were Grover and one of his sons both members of the clergy, he and another of his sons, Matt Grover, were both school teachers at Bishop McGuinness together.Clyde Grover taught economics and theology at Bishop McGuinness, chairing the school's theology department and serving as a school counselor.Bishop McGuinness posted a statement on Facebook about Grover's passing:"Deacon Grover's impact on our community over the past 23 years will forever be part of the rich fabric of our school," the school said in the social media post. "Deacon Grover lived by his faith, and would not want us to mourn his death but rather celebrate the life he was granted, and use his passing as a means to drawing each of us closer to Jesus and his teachings."Survivors include Grover's wife Ann; his sons Chris, Matt and the Rev. Danny Grover; and daughters Jennifer and Mary Ann. Services are pending.

Carla Hinton A member of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City clergy community has died of COVID-19.Clyde Grover, a deacon at St. Andrew Catholic Church in Moore and a longtime member of Bishop McGuinness High School, died Wednesday. He was 62.Diane Clay, the archdiocese's communications director, said two members of Grover's household had tested positive for the virus for about a week when he became ill and went to the hospital. She said he was in the hospital for six days before succumbing to the virus.Clay said the deacon's exposure to the virus was not related to a recent COVID-19 outbreak...

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