Rev. Joseph Philip Quirin 1878-1949

QUIRIN, FELLINER, BROESSEL

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 2/8/2016 at 22:07:50

The Telegraph Herald – May 4, 1949

REV. J. P. QUIRIN,
EDGEWOOD, DIED
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Priest for 43 Yrs; Rites
Set for Dubuque
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The Rev. Joseph Philip Quirin, 71, retired pastor of St. Mark’s Church, Edgewood, died at 1 a.m. Wednesday at his residence in Edgewood after a two week illness.

The funeral will be held at 10 a.m, Saturday from the Hoffmann Mortuary to St. Raphael’s Cathedral. The Most Rev. Edward A Fitzgerald, auxiliary bishop of Dubuque, will offer the requiem mass, and the Most Rev. Henry P. Rohlman, archbishop of Dubuque, will preside and give the final absolution. Burial will be in St. John the Baptist Cemetery, Centralia.

The body is at the mortuary where friends may call after 7 p.m. Thursday.

Priest 43 Years

Farther Quirin, who was a priest for 43 years, was born March 15, 1878, at Centralia, the son of Philip and Margaret Felliner Quirin.

He studied for the priesthood at Loras College and St. Paul’s Seminary, being ordained June 12, 1906. In St. Paul by the Most Rev. John Ireland, archbishop of St. Paul.

His Assignment

His first assignment was an assistant pastor at Gilbertville, and he later served as a pastor in a number of towns, including Parkesburg, Rockford, Dorchester, Britt, Fillmore and Edgewood, all in the Dubuque archdiocese.

He retired in August from active work and since that time had been residing in Edgewood.

He is survived by his twin sister, Mrs. Mary Broessel, of Lansing, Mich., and a number of nieces and nephews of Rochester, N.Y.