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 Father James Brichetto
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Father James Brichetto, S.J.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Nov. 20 for Jesuit Father James Brichetto at St. Xavier Church in Cincinnati. He died Nov. 17 in Clarkston, Mich.

A graduate of St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati in 1949, Father Brichetto was the former pastor of St. Xavier Church, St. Benignus in Greenfield, St. Michael in New Vienna, St. Joan of Ark in Indianapolis and was associate pastor of St. Antoninus in Cincinnati. He was chaplain for the Cincinnati Fire Department for more than 20 years. He also served as a teacher at St. Ignatius in Chicago.

He is survived by his sister, Sylvia Davis.

Interment was in the Jesuit cemetery in Milford.

Father John Nagele

Father John Nagele, C.S.Sp.
A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Nov. 19 for Missionary of the Precious Blood Father John Nagele, 81, at St. Charles Center in Carthagena. He died Nov. 15 at St. Charles Center. A native of Erie, Pa. he entered the Precious Blood Community in 1940 and was ordained on June 4, 1953. He spent his life as a priest in pastoral ministry. Following ordination he served as an assistant pastor at parishes in Cleveland, Ohio, Renselaer, Ind., Falls Church, Va., and Holy Angels Church in Dayton. He returned to the Falls Church St. Anthony parish in 1971 serving as pastor for 10 years. In 1981 he returned to Our Lady of Good Counsel parish in Cleveland where he served as pastor for 10 years. He then ministered at a parish in Niles, Mich., until he was assigned to the staff of the Sorrowful Mother Shrine in Bellevue, Ohio, in 1996. He was appointed pastor of a cluster of parishes close to the shrine in 1999 and helped the parishioners there with a difficult time of parish consolidation.

In July 2007, at the age of 80, he accepted a new assignment as administrator of Mother of Sorrows Church of Put-in-Bay, Ohio, and St. Michael Church on Kelleys Island; however ill health forced him to move to St. Charles in the fall of 2007. Burial was in the community cemetery.

Father William Schwartz

Father William H. Schwartz
A Memorial Mass will be celebrated Dec. 4 for Father William Schwartz at Queen of Peace Parish in Millville. He died Nov. 22 at the age of 79, and his body has been donated to science.

Father Schwartz was ordained in 1953 by Archbishop Karl J. Alter at St. Monica Cathedral in Cincinnati and received his first assignment as pastor at Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in Reading. He also served as assistant at St. Mary Parish in Hamilton, Sacred Heart in Dayton, St. Patrick in Fayetteville, St. Antoninus in Cincinnati, Assumption in Mt. Healthy and Guardian Angels in Cincinnati. He was pastor of Seven Dolors in Monroe, Queen of Martyrs in Dayton, St. Catharine in Cincinnati, Holy Redeemer in New Bremen, St. Thomas More in Withamsville and St. Peter in Chains in Hamilton. He was administrator of St. Michael in Mt. Orab, St. Charles in Cincinnati, St. Peter in New Richmond, Queen of Peace in Millville and Queen of Martyrs in Dayton.

He was a teacher at Hamilton Catholic High School, St. Joseph Commercial School in Dayton and Seton High School in Cincinnati. He served as an assistant chaplain at Good Samaritan Hospital in Dayton, chaplain of the Boy Scouts in the Dayton District, director and chaplain of St. Joseph Orphanage in Dayton, director of the Catholic Youth Organization in Hamilton and later in Dayton, director of Catholic Charities in Dayton and procurator at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary.
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