Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Doherty, John J., Rev. August 8, 1918
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Virginian-Pilot  August 12, 1918
Hundreds of people gathered in St. Mary's Catholic church at 7:30 o’clock last 
night to pay tribute to the memory of their late beloved pastor, Rev. Father John 
Doherty, who died Thursday morning, in the parsonage, while preparing to go to the 
church to celebrate mass.
The body of Father Doherty was brought into the church at 5 o’clock yesterday 
afternoon, and hundreds of people gazed on the features of the dead priest.
This morning at 10 o’clock, at St. Mary’s church, the funeral of Father Doherty 
and Father Michael Ahern, who died Friday morning on a Bay Line steamer, will be 
held at the same time. Solemn high mass will be said, with Rt. Rev. Monsignor 
O’Farrell, vicar general of the Virginia diocese, as celebrant. Rt. Rev. Bishop 
O’Connell, of the Virginia diocese, will be present, as will scores of priests 
from all over Virginia, and from Maryland, District of Columbia and other states.
Father Doherty and Father Ahem were very close friends and both had been in poor 
health for years. Father Ahern was returning to Norfolk to attend the funeral cf 
Father Doherty when he was stricken on the boat and died before the steamer 
reached this port.
The bodies of the two priests, who were friends in life, will rest side by side in 
St. Mary’s cemetery.

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