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FOUR—A
JULY 30, 1949
Recreation Session
At Camp Villa Marie
To Begin August 1st
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga. — The first
session at Camp Villa Marie, at
ftrimball’s Point, which was de
voted to catechetical instruction
for boys and girls of the parishes
in areas of the Diocese of where
there were no Catholic schools or
summer vacation religious schools,
closed on July 22, and the second
session at the camp, a recreational
session, will open on August 1 and
continue through August 28.
More than a hundred boys and
girls were at Camp Villa Marie for
the religious instruction session,
children being registered from
Statesboro', Americus, Tifton, De
catur, Cordele, Plains, Alapha,
Brooklet, Macon, Warner Robins,
Pooler, Augusta, Dublin, Waynes
boro, Albany and Brunswick.
Children who attend parochial
schools were not accepted for the
religious instruction session at the
camp, but may enroll for the rec
reational session. NonrCatholic
children may also enroll at the
recreational camp, which will be
for both boys and ■ girls.
A charge of $12.50 per week will
be made for each child; Children
i ay be enrolled for one week, two
weeks or the entire camp period.
Children whose health requires
recreational opportunity for
which they would be unable to
pay, will be welcomed at the sec
ond session without charge, on
recommendation of their pastor.
Franciscan Missionary Sisters of
the Immeculate Conception are in
charge of the camp, with Mother
Camillus as director. Sister Ernes
tine is the dietician, with Mrs.
Robert Gallini as her assistant.
Sister Mary Maurice, Sister Fe-
licitas and Sister Irene, the in
structors, are assisted by James
Bradley and James Jenkins, semi
narians. Father Andrew McDonald,
who is engaged in post ordination
study at the Catholic University
of America, is serving as spiritual
director of Camp Villa Marie dur
ing vacation.
Among the improvements made
at Camp Villa Marie for thiS year
is the construction of a new swim
ming pool which is proving one of
tl?e camp’s most attractive recre
ational features. There is a new
bath house, with hot and cold
showers.
Mrs. Mary Vieira
Dies in Brunswick
BRUNSWICK, Ga.—Funeral ser
vices for Mrs. Mary Paula Vieira,
who died J.uly 1, were held at St.
Francis Xavier Church, Father
John Mercer, S. M., officiating.
Mrs. Vieira, a native of Portu
gal, had resided in this country for
many years. She is survived by
her husband, Gregory Vieira; two
sons, William Vieira and George
Vieira; a daughter, Miss Isabel,
Vieira, all of Brunswick; two sis
ters, Mrs. Olive Vieira and Mrs.
Natalie Boa, Brunswick, and two
brothers, John Sylva, Brunswick,
and William Sylva, Fernandina,
Fla.
MISS JOHANNA O’DONNELL
FUNERAL IN CHARLESTON
CHARLESTON, S. C. — Funeral
services for Miss Johanna C.
O'Donnell, who died June 19, were
held at the Cathedral of St. John
the Baptist, Father Louis F. Slur-
ker officiating.
Miss O'Donnell is survived by a
niece, Mrs. George Comar, and a
nephew, William E. O’Donnell,
both of Charleston.
MRS. WALTER HARTRIDGE
FUNERAL IN SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Funeral ser
vices for Mrs. Walter Charlton
Hartridge, who died in St. Augus
tine, Fla., July 23, were held at
the Cathedral of St. John the Bap
tist.
Mrs. Hartridge, 'the former Miss
Catherine McIntyre, was the wid
ow of the late solicitor general of
the Eastern judicial circuit. She
had participated prominently in
local cultural and social service
activities for a number of years.
JOSEPH CONTI
FUNERAL IN ATLANTA
ATLANTA, Ga.—Funeral serv
ices for Joseph Conti, of Stone
Mountain, Who died July 25, were
held at the Sacred Heart Church,
Father William A. Maguire, S. M.,
officiating.
Mr. Conti is survived by three
sisters, Mrs. Francesca Jones and
Mrs. Myrtice Ansovineo, of Audu
bon, N. J., and Mrs. F. C. Randall,
Jacksonville, Fia.
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
AT CAMP VILLA MARIE—A group of girls from St. Mary’s Home in Savannah are pictured at
the new swimming p6ol of Camp Villa Marie, at. Grimball’s Point, near Savannah, where a Re
ligious Vacation Camp is being conducted for children of the rural areas of the Diocese of Savan-
nah-Atlanta by the Missionary Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception. The first session
at Camp Villa Marie, from July 1 to July 22, was for children who do not attend Catholic schools,
while the second session, from August 1 to August 26, will be recreational.—(Photo Courtesy of
The Savannah Morning News)
Marist Missionary From South Pacific
Brings Savannah Relatives Details oi
Death of Brother Joseph Redman, 1 M.
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Father Jo
seph Lamarre, S. M., Marist mis
sionary to the Solomon Islands in
the South Pacific, was in Savan
nah this month to bring to rela
tives here first-hand information in
regard to the death of Brother Jo
seph Redman, S. M., of Savannah,
who died in 1944 when American
airmen bombed Japanese installa
tions on Bougainville, were Broth
er Joseph was being held as a
prisoner of war.
Father" Lamarre and Brother Jo
seph were captured in August,
1942, when the Japanese took Bou
gainville where the Marist Mission
was located, and they were taken
to a small island of the Solomon
group nearby.
There they were left to fend for
themselves, the only white men on
the island, the Japanese occupying
half of the island and leaving the
two Americans to subsist as best
they might on the other part of the
"island.
‘‘We nearly starved,” Father La
marre said here. “We gathered
fruits and vegetables, but our diet
was lacking in many essentials.”
After a year of this existence,
the two were taken by their cap-
tors to a Japanese stronghold at
Rabaul, 200 miles north, where
they lived for five months behind
barbed wire, subsisting on eight
ounces of rice a day and doing
hard labor digging tunnels and
working on fortifications.
The only improvement over So-
hana, Father Lamarre said, was
that they had the company of
American airmen who had been
captured after having been shot
down.
After both of the missioners had
contracted beri beri as a result of
their wretched diet, through the
kindly offices of a Japanese inter
preter, who had been educated in
California, they were sent to a
mission concentration camp at
Bougainville, where though still
behind barbed wire, they were
with other Marists and where fields
and herds provided them with bet
ter food.
Brother Joseph did not long
survive to enjoy the improved con
ditions. Twelve days after his ar
rival the Fifth Air Foree attacked
the island from New Guinea and
Brother Joseph died in the first
assault wave of bombers which
strafed the camp.
Father Lamarre explained that
the Americans probably did not
know of their presence there, since
the Japanese had their enclosure
surrounded by guns and would not
allow the prisoners to use any
markings to distinguish their quar
ters from those oi the enemy.
"For ten minutes, which seemed
like ten hours,” said Father La
marre, “the planes bombed and
machine-gunned our camp and the
neighboring camp of the Japanese.
When the smoke cleared away,
most of our huts had been burned
and seven missionaries had been
wounded by bullets.
"Brother Joseph was in the
small hospital. The hospital had
been blown away, and 1 had no
illusions about what had happened
to him. In a few minutes, Broth
er Joseph was found underneath
the debris, dead. Within an hour
of his death, he was buried with
the rites of the church.”
Father Lamarre declared that
Brother Joseph was a true Marist
and a hero in the fullest sense of
the word. “He was utterly un
selfish. I know, because he was
my buddy. He often said to me,
‘It doesn’t matter what happens to
me in this war. The mission can
get along without me—I'm just a
lay brother. If only you could get
out of it and return soon to minis
ter to your natives.’ This exem
plified his fine spirit.”
Brother Joseph was a native of
Savannah, known 4s John Rodman
before he entered the religious life.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Roland
Redman, he attended the Mar
ist School for Boys here. He
worked for the Central of Geor
gia Railway for a time after com
pleting school, and went to sea for
a while. He entered the Society
of Mary in Washington in 1936, and
went to the Solomons in 1939.
Among his relatives in Savannah
are an aunt, Mrs. J. M. McDon
ough, and two cousins, Miss Ger
trude Cooley and Miss Helen Coo
ley.
Father Lamarre arrived in this
country from Australia in May,
and after Ins stay in Savannah left
for Maine where'Brother Joseph’s
father is now living.
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
ALTAR SOCIETY, ATLANTA
PLANS ICE CREAM FESTIVAL
ATLANTA, Ga. — The Altar
Society of the Immaculate - Con
ception Church will sponsor an
ice cream festival which will be
held from 5 until 8 p. m. on Au
gust 21, on the lawn of the home
of Mrs. C. Van Mansfield, 1223
Stonybrook Drive, S. E.
The program will include enter
tainment for children and adults,
and advance reservations may be
made by phoning DE-8334.
JOHN W. SNYDER, Secretary of
the Treasury of the United States,
was received in private audience
on July 16 by His Holiness Pope
Pius XII.
Annual Meeting of
St. Mary's Home in
Savannah, Postponed
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga. — The annual
meeting of the Female Orphan
Benevolent Society, under the aus
pices of which St. Mary’s Home is
operated here by the Sisters of
Mercy, which was scheduled to be
held last month, has been post
poned, on account or the illness of
John W. Gleason, vice-president of
the society, and the absence from
the city of Monsignor T. James
McNamara, secretary-treasurer.
His Excellency the Most Rever
end Gerald P. O’Hara, D. D„ J. U.
D., Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta,
who is president of the society, is
presently in Romania, where he is
serving as Regent of the Apostolic
Nunciature in Bucharest. Monsi
gnor Joseph E. Moylan, Vicar
General of the Diocese of Savan
nah-Atlanta, who is administering
the affairs of the Diocese while
BishopO’Hara is abroad, is serving
temporarily as the presiding offi
cer of the society.
Members of the Advisory Board
are E. George Butler, John M.
Brennan, W. J. Bremer, Hugh II.
Grady, James H. McKenna, Peter
Roe Nugent, Charles F. Powers,
W. H. Sexton, Elton E. Wright,
Walter B. Murphy, M. C. McCar
thy and Dr. W. B. Crawford.
No date has been set as yet for
the meeting.
Funeral Services for
Murdered Priest Are
Held in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS.—Funeral ser
vices for Father John F. Neifert,
S. S. J., who died on July 10 from
wounds received when he was bru
tally beaten by a robber, were
held at Holy Redeemer Church,
where Father Neilert had been
pastor for seven weeks.
Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel
of New Orleans was present in the
sanctuary at the Solemn Requiem
Mass, which was offered by Fa
ther Thomas P McNamara, S. S.
J., of Baltimore, superior general
of the Josephite Fathers, and pro
nounced the absolution following
the Mass.
Father Neifert was born in Kal
amazoo, Michigan, February 18,
1881, and was ordained to the
priesthood by His Eminence James
Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of
Baltimore, in 1920. He served at
St. Joseph’s Industrial School,
Clayton, Del., as pastor of St. Pe
ter’s Church, Dallas, Texas, St.
Joan of Arc Church, New Orleans,
St. Joseph’s Church, Wilmington,
Most Pure Heart of Mary Church,
Mobile, and as rector of St. Jos
eph’s Industrial School, in Dela
ware. Before coming to Holy Re
deemer Church in New Orleans, he
had been in Mobile since 1945.
JAMES D. HYLAND
FUNERAL IN CHARLESTON
CHARLESTON, S. C.—Funeral
services for James D. Hyland, who
died in Columbia on July 4, from
injuries received when he was
struck by an automobile, were held
at the Cathedral of St. Jbhn the
Baptist, Father Louis Sterker of
ficiating.
Mr. Hyland was born in San
Francisco, August 26, 1897, and was
formerly employed in Charleston
by the Charleston Dry Dock Com
pany. He was the son of John Hy
land and Mrs. Catherine Daly Hy
land, both of Ireland.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Nora Hears Hyland; a daughter.
Miss Frances Hyland; two sons
James Paul Hyland and Stephen
Leroy Hyland.
MRS. ESTHER SPEARS
DIES IN AUGUSTA
AUGUSTA, Ga.—Mrs. Esther Ba
ker Spears, wife of the late Ed
ward Lee Spears, who died June
24, were held at St. Patrick’s
Church, Father Harold Barr offi
ciating.
Mrs. Spears, who had been a res
ident of Augusta for nearly thirty
years, is survived by four sons,
Percy M. Spears, George E. Spears
and Chester W. Spears, of Augusta,
John B. Spears, of Montmorenci,
S. C.; two daughters, Mrs. W. A.
Hundley, and Mrs. O. W. Jones,
both of North Augusta; a sister,
Mrs. Mary Easley, Augusta; seven
teen grandchildren; two great
grandchildren, and a number of
nieces and nephews.
francis Joseph manning
FUNERAL IN CHARLESTON
CHARLESTON, S. C.—funeral
services for Francis Joseph Man
ning, who died July 10, were held
at the Cathedral of St. John the
Baptist, Father Louis Sterker of
ficiating.
Survivors include his foster-
mother, Mrs. Jeanne M. Gates, of
Baldwin Park, Calif.
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