A funeral mass was celebrated Sept. 20 in the St. Joseph Home for the Blind Chapel at Cusack Care Center for Lewis Thorpe, 85. He died Sept. 16. He was an avid reader of the Bible in Braille and could recite any passage requested, from memory. A recent convert to Catholicism, Lewis always attended daily Mass, loved to sing in the choir, and lead the recitation of the Rosary. He will be missed, especially by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, his only remaining ‘family’. Services arranged by McLaughlin Funeral Home of Jersey City.