Ionia-Kent County MI Archives Obituaries.....Burgrath, Rev. Michael J. March 24, 1909
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Philadelphia Inquirer; March 24, 1909
WHITE HAVEN ROBBED OF PRIEST BY DEATH.
Rev. Michael J. Burgrath, Beloved by Tuberculosis Patients, Victim of Heart
Disease.
FREELAND, Pa., March 23 - At the rectory of St. Patrick's Church, White Haven,
of which he was pastor for thirty-six years, Rev. Michael J. Burgrath,, died
today from heart disease. He came here from Portland, Mich. and was immediately
assigned to the parish in which he died. 
Father Burgrath was 65 years of age and was greatly beloved in this district for
his charitable work. For the victims of tuberculosis, since the erection of the
sanatorium here brought hundreds of strangers seeking relief, he had special
solitude and was largely instrumental in having dissipated the strong dislike
expressed in White Haven against the appearance of consumptives in public places. 

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