Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Walsh, Thomas Joseph  November 24, 1963
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The Ledger Star November 25, 1963

                            Sacred Heart Pastor

                    FATHER WALSH DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS

The Rev. Thomas Joseph Walsh, 85, pastor of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 
Norfolk, and one of the most widely known priests of the Diocese of Richmond, 
died Sunday at 11:30 p.m. at Georgetown Hospital, Washington, D.C. He had been 
pastor at Sacred Heart since June 1954.
Father Walsh had been in residence at St. Anselm's Abbey, Washington, after 
hospitalization in Norfolk for a heart attack suffered here in August of this 
year. He had been anticipating a visit to Norfolk for Thanksgiving but on 
Saturday was stricken with another heart attack and was taken to the hospital.
He came to Norfolk from St. Bede's Church, Williamsburg.
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 Among the diocesan posts Father Walsh held during his ministry of 34 years were 
diocesan director of the Newman Club and diocesan director for cemeteries.
The Rev. Frank J. Hendrick, principal of Norfolk Catholic High School, who was 
made administrator of the church when it became apparent that Father Walsh's 
illness would be of long duration, expressed his personal sorrow  today at the 
news.
Father Walsh was born March 19, 1898 in Sommersville, Mass. and was the son of 
the late Owen Boyle Walsh and Mrs. Helene Crospy Walsh. 
Prior to his ordination to the priesthood, Father Walsh was an Xaverian Brother 
(Brother Owen) and while serving his church in that capacity was a teacher at 
St. Mary's Academy, Norfolk. He prepared for the priesthood at Belmont Abbey, 
North Carolina and was ordained at the Cathedral Church of St. John Latern in 
Rome, Dec. 21, 1929 by Cardinal Pompoli, Vicar General to Pope Pius XI. He also 
attended classes at Urban College and later studied at Cambridge University in 
England.
Upon returning to the United States after his ordination, Father Walsh served as 
assistant pastor at St. Mary's, Norfolk; St. James Church, Falls Church; St. 
Francis, Staunton; Sacred Heart, Danville and was then named as pastor at St. 
Bede's. Williamsburg.
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Father Walsh is survived by one sister, Sister Helen Virginia, Sisters of Notre 
Dame, at St. Michael's Convent, Hudson, Mass.
Taking a keen interest in art, Father Walsh gave his art collection to 
Walsingham Academy, Williamsburg.
The priest's body is to lie in repose at Sacred Heart Rectory, 520 Graydon Park, 
after 7 o'clock tonight The transferal of the body to Sacred Heart Church takes 
place Tuesday at 11:45 a.m. and this will be followed by rituals to be attended 
by the children of the school. Throughout the day and evening there will be a 
succession of honor guards of parishioners and attendants.
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The Solemn Requiem Mass will be sung by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Carroll T. Dozier, 
dean of Tidewater Catholic clergy, and pastor of Christ the King Church, at 11 
a.m. Wednesday. The Rev. John Riordan, pastor of Star of the Sea Church, Fort 
Monroe and the Rev. Paul T. Gaughan, Sacred Heart Church, will be sub deacons. 
The sermon will be by the Rev. Gabriel Maloriello, of St. John's Seminary, 
Richmond.
Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery, Norfolk.


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