Chapter Six – Part Four

 

Death of Fr. Doherty

A few weeks later the reaction from strenuous days during and after the floods set in, and his physician advised him to go to the hospital for a complete rest.  He failed to respond to medical treatment, and died suddenly of a heart attack, November 23, 1938.  The Record paid tribute to Fr. Doherty:

 

Fr. Doherty was above all things, except being a priest, a gentleman.  It was characteristic of him to be genteel; we love him as a priest, as we love all priests, but admired Fr. Doherty for the particular policy of gentleness.  He served the archdiocese for thirty–six years, during all these years, and all places, he was just a priest of God serving only the peoples of the congregation to which he administered, a model priest for all, devoted, wholly self–sacrificing, just a priest of God.

 

The mortal remains of Fr. Doherty rest in the family plot at providence, R.I.

 

Role of Honor

In the first hundred years of its existence, the Church of Our Lady cannot claim one son, born and reared in the parish, who has been raised to the dignity of the holy priesthood.  Right Rev. E. Erle Willett, P.A., vicar general of the archdiocese of Louisville and pastor of St. James’ Church, resided in the parish in his boyhood days, and for a few years, attended Our Lady’s School.  Rev. Edward J. Recktenwald, C.S.Sp., of St. Mary’s Seminary, Norwalk, Connecticut, and Rev. Robert E. Canty, pastor of the Church of Our Lady of the Hills, Finley, Kentucky, where baptized here, but shortly after moved from the parish.

 

The Church of Our Lady has one son, Adolph B. Recktenwald, who entered the Xaverian Brothers’ novitiate in 1937.  His name and religion is Brother Dionysius C.F.X., and he is at present stationed in Old Point Comfort, Virginia.  Two sons of the parish are now studying for the holy priesthood.  Seventeen daughters have entered religious life:

 

Sisters of Charity                                    Sisters of Loretto

Sr. Lucy Lampton                                   Sr. Bernard Marie Recktenwald

Sr. Mercedes Portman                            Sr. Magdalen Doyle

Sr. Clare Hedderman                              Sr. Marcella Ricketts

Sr. Nicholas Barry                                   Sr. Williamette Secor

Sr. Angela Strain

Sr. Anselm Murphy

 

Sisters of Mercy                                     Ursuline Sisters

Sr. Columbia Muench                              Sr. Damian Cahill

Sr. Jane Cahill                                        Sr. Sarita Secor

Sr. Victoria Sebrey                                 Sr. Ethelreda Carr

Sr. Herman Huber

 

Sunday Envelopes 1938

 

Financial Statement 1939

 

Deed of Transfer – June 7, 1939

 

Last of the old tress –circa 1930s

Looking east toward K&I bridge

 

Our Lady Property – circa 1930s

In the first few decades of the 20th century before construction of the floodwall, the parish boundary shrunk further.  Several deeds indicate that the Archdiocese granted land to parishioners and others who presumably built homes and/or businesses on the land.

 

First St./Missouri

 

 

Grove St.

(35th St.)

 

 

 

 

Commercial St.

(34th St.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Floodwall

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I–64

 

Our Lady

 

Floodwall

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I–64

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Market St. (Rudd Avenue)

 

 

 

Fr. Lyon’s letter to Bishop Floersh requesting consecration of new altar stone

 

 

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