Father Charles J. Bowes, pastor of Our Lady of the Rosary in Greenhills, died Jan. 5 at hospice. He was 63 and had been suffering from cancer.

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Father Charles J. Bowes

A native of Jacksonville, Fla., he studied philosophy and theology at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West and received a master’s degree in communication arts from the University of Notre Dame. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of St. Augustine, Florida, in 1971 and was incardinated into the Archdiocese of Cincinnati in 1981.

Father Bowes was in residence at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Cincinnati from 1977 until he received his assignment as parochial vicar at St. Saviour Church in Rossmoyne in 1979. He became pastor of St. John the Baptist Parish on Dry Ridge Road in Cincinnati in 1983.

He was named pastor of Our Lady of the Rosary Parish in 1998 and served there until his death.

Interment will be at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Montgomery.

Father Fred Bergewisch

A Memorial Mass was celebrated Dec. 29 for Jesuit Father Fred Bergewisch, 87, at St. Francis Xavier Church in Cincinnati. He died Dec. 24.

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Jesuit Father Fred Bergewisch

Following his ordination, he was assigned to Loyola Academy as a teacher and treasurer. In 1959, he was assigned to Loyola University where he taught theology for six years before becoming superior of the Jesuit scholastics. From 1968-71, he earned a doctoral degree at The Catholic University of America and then returned to Loyola as associate professor. In 1980, he was appointed a field advocate with the Chancery Marriage Tribunal and directed retreats in Chicago and Cincinnati. In 1989, he was assigned as a missionary in Peru, where he taught seminarians and ministered to the people. He moved to the retirement facility of Colombiere Center in Clarkston, Mich., in 2004.

He is survived by his sister, Lois Krabacher.

Interment was in Clarkston.

Deacon Arthur Runnels

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Jan. 8 for Deacon Arthur Runnels, deacon of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, at Nativity of Our Lord Church in Cincinnati. He died Jan. 4.

Deacon Runnels was ordained to the diaconate by Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin in 1976. He served at Nativity of Our Lord from 1976-93, at St. Aloysius in Elmwood Place and St. Charles Borromeo in Carthage from 1993-98 and at Holy Cross-Immaculata in Cincinnati from 1998-2002, when he retired. He also was a member of the advisory board of The Catholic Telegraph in the early 1990s, business manager of St. Anthony Messenger magazine and treasurer of the Catholic Press Association.

He is survived by his wife, Anita, and three children.

Sister Florence Ruede

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated for Sister of Charity of Cincinnati Florence Ruede (Sister Loyola) Dec. 29 at the Mount St. Joseph Motherhouse in Delhi Township. She died Dec. 24 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati at the age of 86.

A native of Jackson, Mich., she earned a bachelor of science in education from the Athenaeum of Ohio, a bachelor of arts in history from the College of Mount St. Joseph and a master’s in education from Creighton University in Omaha, Neb.

She began her teaching ministry at St. William School in Cincinnati in 1943. She also was junior high teacher at Corpus Christi in Dayton (1953-54) and St. Brigid in Xenia (1954-56); an elementary principal in Trinidad, Colo., Albuquerque, N.M.; a secondary teacher in Lansing, Mich., St. Joseph Commercial School in Dayton and Archbishop Alter High School in Kettering, and in Albuquerque, N.M., and S. Holland, Ill. From 1969-75, she worked with the poor. She returned to teaching and being principal from 1979-2000 at schools in Detroit, Garfield Heights, Ohio, and Clinton Township, Mich. She returned to the motherhouse in 2001.

She is survived by her sisters, Sister of Charity Marian Ruede, Eileen Sauter,

Frances Hogle; and her brother, Richard.

Interment was in the Sisters of Charity cemetery.

Rosemary Farrell

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Jan. 8 for Rosemary Farrell, 78, of Kettering, at Immaculate Conception Church in Dayton. She died Jan. 4.

A native of Duquesne, Pa., she is survived by her daughters, Kathleen Boesch of Chillicothe, Celine Muir of Kettering; her sons, Thomas Farrell of Minneapolis and Father Robert Farrell, pastor at St. Bartholomew Parish in Cincinnati.

She was interred in Dayton National Cemetery.