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Mass for Robert J. McNamara, 59, dean of sociology at Loyola University, will be said at 10 a.m. Monday in St. Ignatius Catholic Church, 6559 N. Glenwood Ave. Mr. McNamara, of Evanston, died Friday in Evanston Hospital. He was formerly the chairman of the sociology department at Fordham University in New York, where he taught for eight years until he was appointed dean of Loyola University`s College of Arts and Sciences in 1970. He resigned from that position in 1973 to teach in the sociology department. He also was the former visiting study director of the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago from 1966 to 1967. Survivors include his wife, Juliet Rago McNamara; three stepdaughters, Christina Rago, Carmela Rago and Martha Rago; a stepson, Anthony Rago; and a brother