I'll miss you, Uncle Vin
Rev. J. Vincent Kelly
By Herald staff | Tuesday, September 30, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Obituaries
The Rev. J. Vincent Kelly, C.Ss.R., a retired Roman Catholic priest and a World War II veteran, died Friday at St. John Neumann Residence in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. He was 94.
Born in Roxbury, Father Kelly was also a resident of Lima, Ohio, for five years and Boston for 47 years.
He attended Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Grammar School on Mission Hill until 8th grade and then completed the six-year minor seminary preparatory program at St. Mary’s College in North East, Pa., in 1933. He studied at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and received a doctorate in sacred theology in 1942.
During World War II, he served as an Air Force chaplain.
Ordained a Roman Catholic priest in June 1939, Father Kelly returned to the seminary in Pennsylvania to teach Latin until 1944, reassuming his teaching career after the war. He served as a parish priest at Mission Church in Boston from 1950 to 1956 and from 1964 to 1969. He was the pastor of St. Gerard Church in Lima, Ohio, from 1956 to 1961. From there he was appointed pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Manhattan, N.Y., for one year until he was elevated to a two-year post as provincial consultor for his congregation in 1962. He served as a Redemptorist priest at the Basilica on Mission Hill for 47 years, until 2003.
He is survived by a sister, Marguerite DeJoie, of West Roxbury; a brother, the Rev. John Kelly of Somerville; and many nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Thursday at Mission Church, Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Boston.
Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Roslindale.
Arrangements by St. John Neumann Residence, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
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By Herald staff | Tuesday, September 30, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Obituaries
The Rev. J. Vincent Kelly, C.Ss.R., a retired Roman Catholic priest and a World War II veteran, died Friday at St. John Neumann Residence in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. He was 94.
Born in Roxbury, Father Kelly was also a resident of Lima, Ohio, for five years and Boston for 47 years.
He attended Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Grammar School on Mission Hill until 8th grade and then completed the six-year minor seminary preparatory program at St. Mary’s College in North East, Pa., in 1933. He studied at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and received a doctorate in sacred theology in 1942.
During World War II, he served as an Air Force chaplain.
Ordained a Roman Catholic priest in June 1939, Father Kelly returned to the seminary in Pennsylvania to teach Latin until 1944, reassuming his teaching career after the war. He served as a parish priest at Mission Church in Boston from 1950 to 1956 and from 1964 to 1969. He was the pastor of St. Gerard Church in Lima, Ohio, from 1956 to 1961. From there he was appointed pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Manhattan, N.Y., for one year until he was elevated to a two-year post as provincial consultor for his congregation in 1962. He served as a Redemptorist priest at the Basilica on Mission Hill for 47 years, until 2003.
He is survived by a sister, Marguerite DeJoie, of West Roxbury; a brother, the Rev. John Kelly of Somerville; and many nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Thursday at Mission Church, Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Boston.
Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Roslindale.
Arrangements by St. John Neumann Residence, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/obituaries/general/view.bg?articleid=1122425