Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Kilgalen, Edward Payne, Rev. September 11, 1945
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Virginian-Pilot  September 13, 1945
The Rev. Father Edward Payne Kilgalen, pastor of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 
who died here Tuesday after a period of failing health, was ordained for the 
priesthood at St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore in 1918. Thereafter, he was to 
spend his whole life in Virginia - first as assistant pastor of St. Joseph’s in 
Petersburg, later as assistant pastor of St. Francis’s in his native city of 
Staunton, then (in 1924) back again in Petersburg as pastor of St. Joseph’s to 
succeed the transferred Father Martin Haier, and finally, from 1937 to the time 
of his death, as pastor of Sacred Heart in Norfolk. 
Father Kilgalen’s pastorate in three Virginia cities began with the first world 
war and ended with the second world war. The period of these successive 
pastorates was troubled with social and economic strains that put to the test 
all church leaders. It demanded of them, in addition to the normal priestly and 
pastoral duties, an understanding participation in non-sectarian communal 
efforts to deal with the social and economic problems of the times, and a 
special managerial ability to deal with parish finances.
In all these respects, Father Kilgalen acquitted himse1f with distinction. 
Petersburg, where he spent sixteen of his twenty-seven years in the pastorate, 
Staunton, where he spent three, and Norfolk where he spent the last eight years 
of it, will long remember him as a spiritual and educational leader whose 
influence extended far beyond the people of his own communion and who gave 
himself generously to good works of many kinds. Norfolk, in particular, will 
remember the courage and fortitude with which he carried on, despite pursuing 
physica1 infirmities. The career of this priest ended many years too soon for 
the good of the church and the community.


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