Pastor William G. Kenneally of St. Gertrude Parish dies at 85 years old
CHICAGO – Priest William G. Kenneally of St. Gertrude Parish of Chicago died Thursday at the age of 85, according to the Archdiocese of Chicago.
Kenneally was a Chicago native who attended Maternity BVM School and Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago before attending the University of St. Louis. Mary of the Lake / Mundelein Seminary in Mundelein.
Kenneally was ordained on May 1, 1961, and celebrated his first solemn Mass on May 7 of that year at the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church.
Over the years, Kenneally served the Archdiocese of Chicago as an assistant pastor in St. Louis. Paul of the Cross Parish in Park Ridge, St. Therese from Infant Jesus Parish on Wood Street in Chicago and Immaculate Conception Parish on North Park Avenue in Chicago.
Kenneally continued to serve as an associate pastor in St. Edmund Parish in Oak Park and St. Nicholas Parish and Evanston. Kenneally began serving as a pastor at St. Gertrude Parish in 1984, until he was appointed priest emeritus in 2006.
A visitation will be held on Monday 1 November at 17.00-20.00 in St. Gertrude Sogn. The funeral mass takes place at 10 a.m. in the same church, located at 1420 W. Granville Avenue in Chicago.
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