Macleay obituaries, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana 

************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm
************************************************

Name, date of obit, date submitted, submitted for the USGenWeb archives by:

Macleay, Richard Paul, Father     21 Jan 2010    Jan 2010    Jerry Nelson

***************************************************************************

Obituary published in The Hammond Daily Star:  1/21/2010

MACLEAY, FATHER RICHARD PAUL
Father Richard Paul Macleay, O.P., a Dominican Friar of St. Martin de
Porres Province, died on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at St. Joseph Village,
Chicago, Illinois at the age of 79. He entered the Novitiate at the
Dominican House of Studies, River Forest, IL in 1950 and was ordained a
priest at St. Rose Priory, Dubuque, IA on May 25, 1957. In Louisiana,
Father was Director of St. Albert Catholic Student Center, Southeastern
Louisiana University, Hammond (1983-86), Chaplain, Hammond Developmental
Center, School for Retarded Children (1980-88) and Associate Chaplain
(1978-79), Parochial Vicar, St. Helena Parish, Amite (1979-80), Mater
Dolorosa Parish, Independence (1967-77), St. Joseph Parish, Ponchatoula
(1964-67) and St. Dominic Parish, New Orleans (1962-1964). Father was a
native of Chicago, IL, where he ministered in parish work in the
Archdiocese of Chicago from 1989-2009 and Elizabethton, TN (1988-89). He is
survived by nieces, Mary Moore and Cathy Mischler, a nephew, Richard Davis,
also great nieces and nephews. His parents, Richard and Catherine O'Brien
Macleay, a brother, John Macleay and a sister, Mary Catherine Macleay,
preceded him in death.  A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Joseph
Catholic Church, 225 N. Eighth Street, Ponchatoula, LA 70454 on Saturday,
January 23, 2010 at 10:00 A.M. Interment will follow in the Dominican
Friars Cemetery, Rosaryville (near Ponchatoula), LA. A Funeral Mass was
also celebrated at St. Barnabas Catholic Church, Chicago, IL on Tuesday,
January 19, 2010. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Dominican Friars
Retirement Fund, 1421 N. Causeway Blvd. Metairie, LA 70001, preferred.
Arrangements by Drake & Son Funeral Home, Chicago, IL & Jacob Schoen and
Son Funeral Home, New Orleans, LA Guest book may be signed on line at
www.schoencanalstreet.com.

***************************************************************************

File at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/tangipahoa/obits/obitssur/macleay.txt