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~?AG7, 6—THE BULLETIN, June 11, 1960
OBITUARIES
Augusta Services
C. G. O'Hara, Sr.
AUGUSTA—Funeral services
for Mr. Charles G. O’Hara were
held May 28th at St. Mary’s-on-
the-Hill Church, Rev. Kevin
Boland officiating.
Survivors are three daughters,
Mrs. Geddings Cushman Jr. of
Aiken, Mrs. Carroll Smith of
Lincolnton and Mrs. Mary
Francis Baker of Washington,
D. C., three sons, Charles G.
O’Hara Jr., of New Orleans, La.,
Jack O’Hara of Pensacola, Fla.
and Jerry P. O’Hara of Augusta,
two sisters, Mrs. J. A. Griffin
and Mrs. Betty Taylor both of
Augusta; a number of grand
children; one great-grandchild
and two aunts, Mrs. Nannie
Cook of Everglade, Fla., and
Mrs. George W. Long of Green
ville, S. C.
Services For
Eduardo August
BRUNSWICK—Funeral serv
ices for Eduardo August Sr.
were held May 23rd at St. Fran
cis Xavier Church, Rev. James
M. Cummings officiating.
Survivors are two sons, Ed
August Jr. Brunswick, and Jose
August, Portugal.
Funeral Services
For Mrs. C. C. Brooks
ATLANTA—Funeral services
for Mrs. Catherine C. Brooks
were held May 31st at the Sa
cred Heart Church, Rev. John
Emmerth officiating.
Survivors are a daughter, Mrs.
Neldon L. Agier, and a son,
Raymond L. Brooks, both of
Atlanta.
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Augusta Services
For Mrs. Craig
AUGUSTA—Funeral services
for Mrs. Mary Cunningham
Craig were held May 21 at St.
Mary’s-on-the-Hill Church, Rev.
Kermit J. Boland officiating.
Survivors are three daughters,
Miss Marion Craig of South
Bend, Ind., Miss Isabell Craig
and Mrs. Lester Spinks, both of
Augusta; a sister, Mrs. Annie
Grimm of Augusta, and four
grandchildren.
Atlanta Services
Mrs. Henry Laube
ATLANTA—Funeral services
for Mr. Henry Lewis Laube
were held May 25th at the Sa
cred Heart Church, Rev. John
Emmerth officiating.
Survivors are Mrs. Henry
Lewis Laube, William Laube,
Merile Laube, Gery Laube, all
of College Park; Mrs. J. B.
Laube, Miss Audrey Laube, Mr.
Stanley Laube, Mrs. Bill Laube,
Mr. Joe Laube, Mr. Harold
Laube all of Gary, Ind.
Services For
Mrs. Kennedy
ATLANTA—Funeral services
for Mr. J. Farrell Kennedy were
held May 24th at the Sacred
Heart Church, Rev. Thomas J.
Roshetko officiating.
Survivors are Mrs. J Farrell
Kennedy, Mr. and Mrs. E. V.
Ellis, Miss Mary Ellen Kennedy,
Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Holland,
Louisville, Ky. Miss Alice Ken
nedy, Richmond, Va. and grand
children.
Requiem Offered For
Mrs. August Deimel
FITZGERALD—Funeral serv
ices for Mrs. August Deimel
were held May 27th at St. Wil
liams Church.
Mrs. Deimel was a native of
Indiana, and a member of St.
Williams Church.
Survivors are three sons, Rt.
Rev. Msgr. H. J. Deimel of Co
lumbus; F. J. Deimel and S. J.
Diemel of Fitzgerald; three
daughters, Mrs. M. H. Rigsby of
East Point, Mrs. G. E. Pace of
Hilton, and Miss Clara Deimel
of Fitzgerald; a sister, Mrs.
Margaret Koressell of Evans
ville, Ind., five grandchillren.
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Augusta Services
For Mrs. May
AUGUSTA—Funeral services
for Mrs. Marie Smith May were
held May 24th at St. Mary’s-on-
the-Hill Church, Very Rev.
Msgr. Daniel J. Bourke offi
ciating.
Survivors are a son, Capt.
Edwin Morris May, Jr., U.S.A.,
Columbus, Ga.; two daughters,
Mrs. H. E. Colley, Augusta and
Mrs. Charles C. Ebbets Jr. At
lanta; a sister, Mrs. J. Harold
Smith, New York City, a broth
er, Charles Smith, Long Island,
N.Y., several nieces and nephews
and grandchildren.
Services For
Mrs. Oetjen
AUGUSTA—Funeral services
for Mrs. Adele Ludwig Oetjen
were held May 25th at the Sa
cred Heart Church, Rev. Gerald
Armstrong, S.J., officiating.
Survivors are two daughters,
Mrs. Eleanor Mura and Mrs.
Adele Usry of Augusta; three
sons, W. H. Oetjen Jr. of At
lanta, Joseph F. and James L.
Oetjen of Augusta; a sister,
Miss Helen Ludwig of Augusta;
three brothers, A. X. Ludwig of
Atlanta, Edward Ludwig of
North Augusta and James G.
Ludwig of Augusta; a number
of grandchildren, great-grand
children and nieces and nep
hews.
Services For
J. P. Houlihan
SAVANNAH—Funeral serv
ices for Mr. James Patrick
Houlihan were held May 28th
at the Sacred Heart Church.
Mr. Houlihan was named a
Knight of St. Gregory in 1950
by Pope Pius XII, one of the
highest honors given laymen in
the Catholic Church. He served
two terms as president of the
Hibernian Society, was former
president of the Georgia Cath
olic Laymen’s Association, and
was a member of Savannah
Council No. 631, Knights of
Columbus.
Survivors are a son, James P.
Houlihan Jr.; a granddaughter,
Miss Joan Houlihan, and several
nieces and nephews.
Services For
Mrs. C. B. Wade
SAVANNAH—Funeral serv
ices for Mrs. Christine Bouchard
Wade were held May 23rd at
the Sacred Heart Church, Rev.
Terence Kernan officiating.
Survivors are a son, Austin
S. Wade Jr., of Savannah; a
daughter, Miss Sarah Wade of
Cave Springs, Ga.; a brother,
Nelson Bouchard of Columbus;
three sisters, Miss Jule Bouchard
of Washington, D.C., Mrs. Frank
B. Miller of Columbus and Mrs.
Joseph Stark of Facing Lake,
N.J. and two grandchildren.
Mrs. Mary Toshach
Savannah Services
SAVANNAH—Funeral serv
ices for Mrs. Mary Toshach were
held May 20th at the Cathedral
of St. John the Baptist.
Survivors are a niece, Mrs.
Frances George, Bessemer, Ala.
and a nephew, James Healey,
Birmingham, Ala.
Church In Germany Afflicted
By Dearth Of Praish Priests
And Leakage; Still It Grows
By Manfred Wenzel
(N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE)
BONN, Germany—Two major
problems of the Church in Ger
many are leakage through mix
ed marriage and shortage of
diocesan priests.
The two are related. With few
priests to instruct Catholics in
the Faith and to confirm them
in the practice of it, Catholics
may easily drift into, marriages
that involve danger to their re
ligion. And they succumb the
more easily to that danger.
The situation is worst in
communist-ruled East Germany.
Yet in Germany as a whole the
proportion of Catholics within
the population is growing.
Out of every 100 German
marriages involving a Catholic,
61 have two Catholic partners.
Most of the marriaees in which
both partners are Catholic take
place in a Catholic church.
The other 39 are mixed mar
riages, and of these 18 take
place outside the Church. Fewer
than half of the children born
of mixed marriaces in Germany
are baptized. Still the number
of baptisms is bieh enough to
ensure the Church’s growth in
Germany.
Current statistics are lacking
for the Church’s loss and gain
through leakage, conversion and
re-entry. But statistics for the
immediate postwar decade show
the current running against the
Church.
In 1946, a report showed
9.204 persons leaving the
Church, while 19,729 entered it
and 20,788 returned to it. This
meant a net gain of more than
31.000 adults.
In 1947 the Church registered
about 21,000 more conversions
and returns than lapses. The
following year it registered a
net gain of more than 14,000
adults, and in 1949 a net gain of
about 1.500.
By 1950, however, the flow
had reversed itself. That year
almost 3,000 more adults left
the Church than entered or re
entered it. And by 1954; the last
year for which a nationwide
figure is available, the Church
registered 14,809 new entries
and 7,288 returns, but 29,185
lapses. That represented a net
loss of more than 7,000.
Losses are greatest today in
the Sees of Paderborn, Fulda,
Savannah Services
For Robert Seay
SAVANNAH—Funeral serv
ices for Robert Hayne Seay
were held May 23rd at the Ca
thedral of St. John the Baptist.
Survivors are his wife Mrs.
Lou Irene Seay; a daughter,
Mrs. John P. Smith; two sisters,
Mrs. Rita Aprea Wright and
Mrs. John Z. Rourke; a brother,
Allen Seay; four grandchildren.
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Berlin and Meissen—which lie
entirely or in great part within
the Soviet Zone—and in Co
logne, Germany’s most populous
Sees.
Balancing infant baptism
against burials, the Church in
Germany is ahead by 170,000
yearly. At present there are
more than 420,000 infant bap
tisms and less than 250,000 bur
ials a year. That means a gain
of about two-thirds of one per
cent yearly for Germany’s Cath
olic population of almost 27
million.
The proportion of Catholics
within the population of Ger
many has varied since World
War I, partly because of the
contraction, expansion and
again contraction of Germany’s
boundaries and the flow of peo
ple into and out of the country.
The present Catholic popula
tion constitutes about 35 per
cent of the population of Ger
many, both East and West. In
1915 Catholics accounted for
more than 39 per cent of the
total German population and in
1925 for 33 per cent. This re
mained constant until World
War II. The slow rise since
then is probably due to a Cath
olic birth rate higher than that
of the rest of the population.
The number of diocesan
priests has decreased both ab
solutely and relatively. While
the Catholic population has
risen by about 11 per cent since
1915 the number of diocesan
priests has fallen by nearly 5
per cent. In 1915 there were 22,-
300 diocesan priests for 24,100,-
000 Catholics. Today there are
21,200 diocesan priests for 27
million faithful.
But only 16,000 of Germany’s
diocesan priests are active in
parish work. The rest are re
tired, incapacitated or engaged
in teaching or administration.
Religious orders supply another
thousand priests for parish
work, bringing the total num
ber of parish priests in Germany
to 17,000.
Germany has one parish
priest for approximately 1,580
faithful. This is far better than
the Latin American average of
about 5,000 faithful per parish
priest, but gives the German
parish priest about double the
workload of parish priests in
many other Western countries.
But vocations to the regular
priesthood, have almost tripled
since 1915, virtually counter
balancing the dearth of diocesan
priests. There are now more
than 5,900 German priests who
belong to religious orders.
The situation of the Brothers
is less favorable. There were 8,-
000 in 1937 but there are only
4,600 now.
About one-third of the com
munities of nuns in Germany
report an alarming decrease in
vocations. Active communities
such as those engaged in teach
ing or nursing are in dire need
of vocations. Contemplative con
gregations report satisfactory
progress.
A twice-yearly census of
churchgoers indicates that about
two-thirds of those Catholics
not excused from attending
Mass go to church every Sun
day. About half fulfil their
Easter duty.
During the nazi regime, when
the Nazis were oppressing the
Church and restricting its activi
ties, Catholic religious life ap
peared to reach an alltime high
in Germany. At that time al
most two-thirds of Catholics ful
filled their Easter duty.
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