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SEPTEMBER 28. 1946
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
NINE
Joseph L. Budreau
Dies in Savannah
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Joseph Lind-
ly Budreau, Company, produce
brokers, died on September 10.
Funeral services being held at
the Cathedral of St. John the
Baptist, Monsignor T. James Mc
Namara officiating.
Coming to Savannah from
Maine, as a young man, Mr.
Budreau formed a produce broker
age house which now carries on
business on a national basis, play
ing an important part in the farm
prosperity in this section. He
also has a large number of farm
ing interests throughout Chatham
County.
He was well known for his
progressive ideas in the trucking
in garden produce field and
through methods which he intro
duced the truck growers in this
area have been greatly benefited.
Active in numerous civic af
fairs, he was a past president of
the Savannah Rotary Club, the
Hibernian Society of Savannah,
and a director of the Citizens and
Southern National Bank.
Born in Maine, in 1884, he
came to Savannah in 1907, estab
lishing his business here two
years later. In 1918 he organized
the Savannah Truckers Exchange.
Mr. Budreau is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Mattie Woods Budreau;
three sons, Joseph Lindly
Budreau, Jr., John M. Budreau,
and Lt. Remer Lane Budreau; a
daughter, Mrs. Walter Lee Mingle-
dorff, Jr., a sister, Mrs. Frank N.
Ashe, of Oldtown, Me., and four
grandchildren, J. Lindly Budreau,
III, Barbara Ann Budreau, Walter
Lee Mingledorff, IIIO and Lindy
Budreau Mingledorff.
Fattier George Dietz,
of Charleston Diocese,
Dies in Moultrieville
ROBERT HERNANDEZ
FUNERAL IN ATLANTA
ATLANTA, Ga. — Funeral ser
vices for Robert H. Hernandez,
who died September 20, were
held from the Sacred Heart
Church, Father John Emmerth, S.
M„ officiating.
A native of Fernandina, Fla.,
Mr. Hernandez worked for the
Georgia Car and Locomotive Co.,
in Albany, Ga., for some years,
then came to Atlanta, where he
was employed by the same com
pany for over fifteen years. He
retired fifteen years ago.
Mr. Hernandez is survived by
a daughter, Mrs. M. M. Wiggins,
of Albany; two sons, G. A. Her
nandez, of Atlanta, and Robert H.
Hernandez, of Pittsburgh; a sis
ter, Miss Nettie Hernandez, of
Fernandina, and five grandchil
dren.
GEORGE A. HODGSON
DIES AT ISLE OF HOPE
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Funeral ser
vices for George A. Hodgson, who
died September 7, at his home on
Isle of Hope, were held from the
chapel of Our Lady of Good
Hope.
A veteran of World War I, and
a former first sergeant of Battery
A of the 117th Field Artillery, Mr.
Hodgson had lived in Savannah for
te last fifty years. He was a
native of Liverpool, England.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs.
F. A. Blakewood, and Miss Jessie
Hodgson; two nieces, Mrs. Irving
W. Drought and Miss Margaret
Middleton, and two nephews, Jo
seph Blakewood and Harry Blake
wood, all of Savannah.
MRS. JOSEPH P. WHITE
DIES IN CHARLESTON
CHARLESTON, S. C. — Fun
eral services for Mrs. Sallie Eliz
abeth White, widow of Joseph P.
White, were held August 27 at
St. Patrick’s Church.
Mrs. White was born in
Charleston, May 16, 1876, the
daughter of Thomas Molony and
Mrs. Delia Walsh Molony, both
of Ireland. She is survived by
two daughters, Miss Lillian White
and Mrs. Leo J. Barrett; two sis
ters, Mrs. H. M. Clements and
Miss Mary A. Molony, and three
granddaughters.
MRS. WALTER BAUMGART
FUNERAL IN CHARLESTON
CHARLESTON. S. C. — Fun
eral services for Mrs. Florence
Mty Baumgart, of John’s Island,
wife of Walter Carl Baumgart,
were held August 21 at the Mis
sion Chapel of the Holy Ghost
on John's Island.
Mrs. Baumgartner is survived
by her husband; two daughters,
three sisters, two brothers and
five grandchildren.
DAVID M. CONNOR
DIES IN SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Funeral ser
vices for David M. Connor, for
mer assistant cashier of the Na
tional Bank of Kansas City. Mis
souri, who died on September 2
at the home of his daughter. Mrs.
Claude O. Brown, in Savannah,
were held from the Sacred Heart
Church, Father Aloysius Wachter,
O. S. B., officiating.
FATHER DIETZ
CHARLESTON, S. C.—Father
George J. Dietz, pastor for a num
ber of years of St. William’s
Church, Ward, and of the Im
maculate Conception Church,
Edgefield, died on September 7
in the rectory of Stella Maris
Church, Moultrieville, where he
had been temporarily replacing the
pastor, Father William J. Cox.
Funeral services were held from
the Cathedral of St. John the
Baptist in Charleston, with the
Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, D.
D.. Bishop of Charleston, offering
a Pontifical Mass of Reauiem.
Monsignor James J. May, Vicar
General of the Diocese of Charles
ton and rector of the Cathedral,
was the assistant priest. Father
Jeremiah Carmody. pastor of St.
Mary’s Church, and Father Henry
F. Wolfe, pastor of Sacred Heart
Church, were deacons of honor;
Monsignor John L. Manning, D.
D„ Chancellor of the Diocese of
Charleston, was deacon of the
Mass; Father Alfred Kamler, pas
tor of St. Francis de Sales
Church, Columbia, was sub
deacon, and Father Joseph J.
Murphy, assistant pastor of the
Cathedral, was master of cere
monies.
Members of the Knights of Co
lumbus served as a guard of
honor, with Ernest N. Godwin,
Vivian Howell, J. Schroeder Mc-
Inerney, Dan Donato, John Blan
chard and Dan Buckley, acting as
pallbearers.
Father Dietz, who was 51 years
old, was a native of Baltimore,
the son of Albert Dietz, of Ger
many, and Mrs. Anna Meyer
Dietz, of Baltimore. He is sur
vived by a brother, Frank J. Dietz,
of New York City.
Father Dietz attended Loyola
College and St. Mary’s Seminary
in Baltimore: He was ordained to
the priesthood in 1918 by the late
Cardinal Gibbons.
After serving some time as
assistant rector of the Cathedral
of St. John the Baptist in Charles
ton, he was appointed assistant
pastor of St. Mary’s Church in
Greenville,later being transferred
to Aiken, where he was first assis
tant and then pastor of St. Mary
Help of Christians Church."
In 1939, Father Dietz was made
pastor of the Mine Creek Mis
sion, which included St. William’s
Church, Ward, and the Immac
ulate Conception Church, Edge-
field.
Before beginning his study for
the priesthood. Father Dietz at
tended the Maryland Agricultural
College, where he specialized in
the study of soil, crops and ani
mal husbandry, so when he was
placed in charge of the Mine
Creek Mission, near Ward, the
members of his congregation
found they could go to their
pastor to seek help in solving
farm problems just as they sought
his advice in religious matters.
During the war, Father Dietz,
who was a chemist, and a member
of the American Chemical So
ciety, volunteered his services to
the chemical warfare branch of
the country’s armed forces. He
also served as an auxiliary chap
lain at German prisoner of war
camps in South Carolina.
Some months ago, Father Dietz
was seriously injured in an auto
mobile accident, and for some
time was a patient at St. Francis
Xavier Infirmary In Charleston,
where during his convalescence,
he served temporarily as resident
chaplain. Early this spring, not
yet fully recovered from his in
jury, he was appointed resident
chaplain at St. Francis Hospltaf
in Greenville.
Father Diet* was widely known
throughout South Carolina, and
had won a host of friends Catho-
NCCM to Sponsor
New Radio Program
“Faith in Our Tima” to be
Heard Over Mutual Broad
casting System Net work
(N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON. — Sponsorship
of a third nationwide Catholic
radio program, known as Faith in
Our Time and broadcast over the
Mutual Broadcasting System net
work, has been assumed by the
National Council of Catholic Men,
it has been announced at Coun
cil headquarters here.
The program will be broadcast
each Thursday morning at 10:15
a. m.. Eastern Standard Time, and
its format will consist of well-
known hymns presented by an or
ganist and tenor soloist, and a
discourse by an outstanding priest
speaker. The addresses will be
in the style of informal chats
about family and social problems,
with particular appeal to parents
and their children, particularly
‘teen-agers.’
The Council announced that a
plan is under way to encourage
classroom listening to the pro
gram by Catholic high school stu
dents as part of their religious
period.
The first program under the
auspices of the N. C. C. M., will
be broadcast on Thursday, Octo
ber 3, the announcement stated.
The speaker will be the Rev.
Hugh Calkins, of the Servite
Fathers, popular preacher of the
Sorrowful Mother Novena, a col
umnist for the Novena Notes mag
azine and widely known as a ra
dio speaker.
The title of Father Calkins’ first
address will be “How to “Be Hap
py at Home”. It will be the first
of a series of five discourses by
him on the general theme “You
and Your Family”. Titles of his
other talks will be “Husbands
Need Home Training”, October
10; “Children Are Big People”,
Oct. 17; “How to Survive In-
Laws”, October 24; and “How to
Use Your Friends”, October 3.1,
The other nation-wide pro
grams produced by the National
Council of Catholic Men are the
Catholic Hour, broadcast each
Sunday evening by the National
Broadcasting Company, and the
Hojir of Faith, carried each Sun
day morning by the American
Broadcasting Company. As is the
custom with addresses on the oth
er, programs, the N. C. C. M. an
nounced that it will make avail
able free copies to those request
ing them.
Father Benjamin L. Masse, S.
J., associate editor of “America",
will speak on the Catholic Hour
on October 6, 13, 20, and 27. Mon
signor T. James McNamara, su
perintendent of schools for the
Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta, will
speak on the Catholic Hour on
November 3, 10, 17 and 24.
Father Urban Nagle. O. P„ au
thor and dramatist, will speak on
the Hour of Faith program Oc
tober 6. 13, 20 and 27. Father
John J. Reilly, director of the
Shrine of the Immaculate Con
ception, Washington, D. C., will
speak on the Hour of Faith, No
vember 3, 10, 17, and 24.
More Than $300,000
Pledged to Fond for
Hospital in Columbus
COLUMBUS, Ga.—More than
$322,000 of the $500,000 goal set
in the campaign for funds to erect
a Catholic hospital in Columbus
has been pledged. Jack Key,
general chairman of the St. Fran
cis Hospital Fund Campaign com
mittee, has announced.
“The campaign is moving for
ward splendidly despite the fact
that it has slowed down its pace
a little recently,” Mr. Key said.
“However”, he continued, “we are
not in the least discouraged.”
Mr. Key expressed the hope that
the hospital fund would be fully
subscribed before the Community
Chest campaign opens in the late
fall.
Stating that many of the pledges
had already been paid, Mr. Key
pointed out that any person who
had not yet subscribed to the hos
pital fund could do so by contact
ing any member of the committee
or by going to the campaign fund
headquarters on the ground floor
of the Georgia Power Company
Building. The office is open
from 10 a. m. to noon.
Improvements Made at
Cathedral in Atlanta
ATLANTA, Ga.—Monsignor Jo
seph G. Cassidy, rector of the
Cathedral of Christ the King, has
announced that the work of water
proofing that edifice has been
completed.
The work consisted of caulking
all cracks and crevices, and then
covering these sections of the
building with a coating of trans
parent water-proofing compounds
in order to preserve the beauty of
the imposing structure. Similar
work was done of the Cathedral
School Building and on the roof
and gutters of the Cathedral.
Craftsmen Engineering and
Construction Company were the
contractors, and the work was
done under the supervision of
George Donnellan.
Constructed of Indiana lime
stone, the Cathedral was dedicated
in January, 1939, by His Eminence
Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, Arch
bishop of Philadelphia.
RETREAT FOR MEN
HELD IN SAVANNAH
Father William J. Harty, S.
J., of Tampa, Conducts
Laymen’s Retreat at Camp
Villa Marie
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH. Ga.—Fifty Savan
nah Catholic men, with Dr. H. J.
Blackmon and J. A. Sweeney, of
Tampa, attended the annual Re
treat scheduled at Camp Villa
Marie, September 13-15, by Father
William J. Harty, S. J|( of Tampa.
Hugh H. Grady was elected
chairman of the Savannah Retreat
Section, of the Catholic Laymen’s
Association fo Georgia, under the
auspices of which the annual Re
treats for Catholic men are given
at Camp Villa Marie and at St.
Joseph's Home in Washington, Ga.
Other officers elected were Jo
seph P. Doyle, George B. Little,
and Joseph A. Logan, vice-chair
men; Julian C. Sipple, secretary,
and Joseph W. Beranc, assistant
secretary.
A resolution was adopted ex
pressing the gratitude of the re-
treatants to Mrs. Mabel Burns and
boys from St. Theresa Vocational
School who were in charge of the
preparation and serving of meals
during the Retreat.
MRS. GIOVANNI CASELLA
FUNERAL IN AUGUSTA
AUGUSTA, Ga. —Mrs. Maria-
rosa Casella, wife of the late Gio
vanni Casella, died on Septem
ber 13, after an extended illness.
Funeral services were held at the
Sacred Heart Church. Father J. E.
O’Donohoe, S. J., officiating.
Mrs. Casella, a native of Vig-
giana, Italy, had been a resident
of Augusta for many years, and
was well known throughout the
city, her gentle nature and kind
disposition having won her many
friends in all walks of life.
She is survived by four sons,
Louis Casella, Vincent Casella,
Leonard Casella and Dr. Victor
Casella, all of Augusta; two
grandchildren and several nieces
and nephews.
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MRS. J. J. FITZGERALD
DIES IN SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Funeral ser
vices for Mrs. Thelma Maher
Fitzgerald, wife of Joseph J. Fitz
gerald, who died on September 10,
were held from the Cathedral of
St. John the Baptist.
Mrs. Fitzgerald is survived by
her husband; two aunts, Mrs.
Loretta Grady and Mrs. Margaret
Forehand, and several cousins.
lie and non-Catholic, who mourn
his passing as the loss of one
whose pirestly character, affable
disposition and kindly heart had
gained and held their respect,
esteem and affection.
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