Episcopal Press and News

Bishop Walter M. Higley Taken by Death

Diocesan Press Service. May 6, 1969 [77-7]

NEW YORK, N. Y. -- The Rt. Rev. Walter M. Higley, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York from 1960 until early 1969, died May 4 in Syracuse, N.Y., following a long illness. He was 70 years of age.

A graduate of Philips Andover Academy, Columbia University and the General Theological Seminary, he was ordained in 1925. He spent the remainder of his active ministry in the Diocese of Central New York. Following 23 years in the parish ministry he was elected Suffragan Bishop of the Diocese and later Bishop Coadjutor, a position with automatic right of succession. In 1960 he became Diocesan Bishop, succeeding the Rt. Rev. Malcolm Peabody.

He is survived by his wife, the former Marion Mason, four children and nine grandchildren.