Rev. Father Patrick J. Gillooly, 87, the former paster of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church, died Saturday, June 18, 2011 at his home in Berkeley Springs.
A native of Elkins, he was born on June 20, 1923 son of the late Edwin Joseph and Anna Mae McCarthy Gillooly.
He worked at Montgomery Ward Store in Elkins and as a crane operator for Jones & Laughlin Steel in Pittsburgh, before entering the service on May 10, 1943. He served overseas with the 121st Combat Engineers attached to the 29th Division, in Cornwall, England. A D-Day veteran, he landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, in June 1944.
The 29th Division received a Presidential Citation for continuous combat from D-Day to the taking of St. Lo on July 19. Private Gillooly remained with the 29th through the end of the war, crossing the Ruhr and the Rhein and meeting the Russians at the Elb. He also received the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart with an Oak Leaf Cluster.
Discharged from the army in 1945, he entered Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Md., in the spring of 1946 and the seminary in the fall of 1947.
Graduating from college in 1949, he was ordained May 30, 1953, at St. Brendan Parish in Elkins. He was first assigned to St. Peter the Fisherman Parish in Fairmont in 1953 as an associate pastor and, in 1960, served as pastor of St. Joan of Arc Parish and Blessed Trinity Parish in Wheeling.
In 1965, he was assigned as pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Logan and St. Edmund Mission in Man. In 1978, he became pastor of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Berkeley Springs and St. Charles Mission in Paw Paw.
Since his retirement in 1993, he has been teaching the social encyclicals and encyclicals of Pope John Paul II.
While in Logan, the Buffalo Creek disaster occurred in February 1973 and he was instrumental in the caring and help that was established.
He is survived by several cousins. In addition to his parents he is preceded in death by two sisters, one infant sister Margaret Ann and Mary Elizabeth.
Reception of the Body at Saint Peter the Fisherman Catholic Church, 407 Jackson Street, Fairmont today, Wednesday, June 22, at 2 p.m., visitation will follow at the church until 8 p.m. with the Recitation of the Rosary at 5 p.m. and the vigil service at 7 p.m.
The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Thursday, June 23, at 11 a.m. with visitation 9-11 a.m. prior to the service at St. Peter the Fisherman Catholic Church with Rev. Michael J. Bransfield, Bishop Wheeling-Charleston as Celebrant and Father Karl Wohinc and Father Leonard Smith as con-celebrants.
Interment will be at 4 p.m. at St. Brendans Catholic Cemetery in Elkins with full military honors conducted by the Tygart Valley V.F.W. Post 3647 of Elkins.
Arrangements by the Roff Funeral Home, Fairmont.
Published in The Morgan Messenger, Berkeley Springs, WV, on 24 June 2011
A native of Elkins, he was born on June 20, 1923 son of the late Edwin Joseph and Anna Mae McCarthy Gillooly.
He worked at Montgomery Ward Store in Elkins and as a crane operator for Jones & Laughlin Steel in Pittsburgh, before entering the service on May 10, 1943. He served overseas with the 121st Combat Engineers attached to the 29th Division, in Cornwall, England. A D-Day veteran, he landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, in June 1944.
The 29th Division received a Presidential Citation for continuous combat from D-Day to the taking of St. Lo on July 19. Private Gillooly remained with the 29th through the end of the war, crossing the Ruhr and the Rhein and meeting the Russians at the Elb. He also received the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart with an Oak Leaf Cluster.
Discharged from the army in 1945, he entered Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Md., in the spring of 1946 and the seminary in the fall of 1947.
Graduating from college in 1949, he was ordained May 30, 1953, at St. Brendan Parish in Elkins. He was first assigned to St. Peter the Fisherman Parish in Fairmont in 1953 as an associate pastor and, in 1960, served as pastor of St. Joan of Arc Parish and Blessed Trinity Parish in Wheeling.
In 1965, he was assigned as pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Logan and St. Edmund Mission in Man. In 1978, he became pastor of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Berkeley Springs and St. Charles Mission in Paw Paw.
Since his retirement in 1993, he has been teaching the social encyclicals and encyclicals of Pope John Paul II.
While in Logan, the Buffalo Creek disaster occurred in February 1973 and he was instrumental in the caring and help that was established.
He is survived by several cousins. In addition to his parents he is preceded in death by two sisters, one infant sister Margaret Ann and Mary Elizabeth.
Reception of the Body at Saint Peter the Fisherman Catholic Church, 407 Jackson Street, Fairmont today, Wednesday, June 22, at 2 p.m., visitation will follow at the church until 8 p.m. with the Recitation of the Rosary at 5 p.m. and the vigil service at 7 p.m.
The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Thursday, June 23, at 11 a.m. with visitation 9-11 a.m. prior to the service at St. Peter the Fisherman Catholic Church with Rev. Michael J. Bransfield, Bishop Wheeling-Charleston as Celebrant and Father Karl Wohinc and Father Leonard Smith as con-celebrants.
Interment will be at 4 p.m. at St. Brendans Catholic Cemetery in Elkins with full military honors conducted by the Tygart Valley V.F.W. Post 3647 of Elkins.
Arrangements by the Roff Funeral Home, Fairmont.
Published in The Morgan Messenger, Berkeley Springs, WV, on 24 June 2011
Rev. Father Patrick J. Gillooly, 87, the former paster of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church, died Saturday, June 18, 2011 at his home in Berkeley Springs.
A native of Elkins, he was born on June 20, 1923 son of the late Edwin Joseph and Anna Mae McCarthy Gillooly.
He worked at Montgomery Ward Store in Elkins and as a crane operator for Jones & Laughlin Steel in Pittsburgh, before entering the service on May 10, 1943. He served overseas with the 121st Combat Engineers attached to the 29th Division, in Cornwall, England. A D-Day veteran, he landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, in June 1944.
The 29th Division received a Presidential Citation for continuous combat from D-Day to the taking of St. Lo on July 19. Private Gillooly remained with the 29th through the end of the war, crossing the Ruhr and the Rhein and meeting the Russians at the Elb. He also received the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart with an Oak Leaf Cluster.
Discharged from the army in 1945, he entered Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Md., in the spring of 1946 and the seminary in the fall of 1947.
Graduating from college in 1949, he was ordained May 30, 1953, at St. Brendan Parish in Elkins. He was first assigned to St. Peter the Fisherman Parish in Fairmont in 1953 as an associate pastor and, in 1960, served as pastor of St. Joan of Arc Parish and Blessed Trinity Parish in Wheeling.
In 1965, he was assigned as pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Logan and St. Edmund Mission in Man. In 1978, he became pastor of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Berkeley Springs and St. Charles Mission in Paw Paw.
Since his retirement in 1993, he has been teaching the social encyclicals and encyclicals of Pope John Paul II.
While in Logan, the Buffalo Creek disaster occurred in February 1973 and he was instrumental in the caring and help that was established.
He is survived by several cousins. In addition to his parents he is preceded in death by two sisters, one infant sister Margaret Ann and Mary Elizabeth.
Reception of the Body at Saint Peter the Fisherman Catholic Church, 407 Jackson Street, Fairmont today, Wednesday, June 22, at 2 p.m., visitation will follow at the church until 8 p.m. with the Recitation of the Rosary at 5 p.m. and the vigil service at 7 p.m.
The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Thursday, June 23, at 11 a.m. with visitation 9-11 a.m. prior to the service at St. Peter the Fisherman Catholic Church with Rev. Michael J. Bransfield, Bishop Wheeling-Charleston as Celebrant and Father Karl Wohinc and Father Leonard Smith as con-celebrants.
Interment will be at 4 p.m. at St. Brendans Catholic Cemetery in Elkins with full military honors conducted by the Tygart Valley V.F.W. Post 3647 of Elkins.
Arrangements by the Roff Funeral Home, Fairmont.
Published in The Morgan Messenger, Berkeley Springs, WV, on 24 June 2011
A native of Elkins, he was born on June 20, 1923 son of the late Edwin Joseph and Anna Mae McCarthy Gillooly.
He worked at Montgomery Ward Store in Elkins and as a crane operator for Jones & Laughlin Steel in Pittsburgh, before entering the service on May 10, 1943. He served overseas with the 121st Combat Engineers attached to the 29th Division, in Cornwall, England. A D-Day veteran, he landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, in June 1944.
The 29th Division received a Presidential Citation for continuous combat from D-Day to the taking of St. Lo on July 19. Private Gillooly remained with the 29th through the end of the war, crossing the Ruhr and the Rhein and meeting the Russians at the Elb. He also received the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart with an Oak Leaf Cluster.
Discharged from the army in 1945, he entered Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Md., in the spring of 1946 and the seminary in the fall of 1947.
Graduating from college in 1949, he was ordained May 30, 1953, at St. Brendan Parish in Elkins. He was first assigned to St. Peter the Fisherman Parish in Fairmont in 1953 as an associate pastor and, in 1960, served as pastor of St. Joan of Arc Parish and Blessed Trinity Parish in Wheeling.
In 1965, he was assigned as pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Logan and St. Edmund Mission in Man. In 1978, he became pastor of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Berkeley Springs and St. Charles Mission in Paw Paw.
Since his retirement in 1993, he has been teaching the social encyclicals and encyclicals of Pope John Paul II.
While in Logan, the Buffalo Creek disaster occurred in February 1973 and he was instrumental in the caring and help that was established.
He is survived by several cousins. In addition to his parents he is preceded in death by two sisters, one infant sister Margaret Ann and Mary Elizabeth.
Reception of the Body at Saint Peter the Fisherman Catholic Church, 407 Jackson Street, Fairmont today, Wednesday, June 22, at 2 p.m., visitation will follow at the church until 8 p.m. with the Recitation of the Rosary at 5 p.m. and the vigil service at 7 p.m.
The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Thursday, June 23, at 11 a.m. with visitation 9-11 a.m. prior to the service at St. Peter the Fisherman Catholic Church with Rev. Michael J. Bransfield, Bishop Wheeling-Charleston as Celebrant and Father Karl Wohinc and Father Leonard Smith as con-celebrants.
Interment will be at 4 p.m. at St. Brendans Catholic Cemetery in Elkins with full military honors conducted by the Tygart Valley V.F.W. Post 3647 of Elkins.
Arrangements by the Roff Funeral Home, Fairmont.
Published in The Morgan Messenger, Berkeley Springs, WV, on 24 June 2011
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