# First Solemn Mass Fr Joe Beckman 1954 May 30

Rev. Joseph F. Beckman First Mass 30 May 1954

The Rev. Joseph F. Beckman, son of Mrs. Aline Beckman and the late Joseph F. Beckman, Sr., was born in Hamilton Nov. 5, 1921. He attended St. Joseph's and St. Peter's Parochial Schools, Hamilton, and Xavier University Evening College, and after two and a half years in the Army Air Forces entered St. Gregory's Seminary in 1945.

The newly ordained priest will offer his First Solemn Mass in St. Peter's Church, Hamilton, on Sunday, May 30, at 9:30 a.m. Father Henry Gramann of Our Mother of Sorrows' Church, Cincinnati, will preach the sermon; Father Thomas Pater of Mt. St. St. Mary faculty will be the assisting priest, Father Ralph Bange of Elder High School, deacon; and the Rey. Donald McCarthy, a seminarian, subdeacon.

Other ministers will include Edward McFarland, Lawrence Wessel, and Edward Shine, all seminarians.

A reception in the school hall will follow Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at 2:30 p.m.

BECKMAN, Father Joseph F. Jr. age 99 of Cincinnati passed away Tuesday July 20, 2021 at St. Margaret Hall. He was the oldest priest in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. He was born in Hamilton, Ohio on November 5, 1921 the son of Joseph F. and Aline (Haver) Beckman and was a 1939 graduate of Hamilton Catholic High School. A veteran of WW II , he served in the US Army Aircorp as a navigator on the “B24 Liberator” and flew 44 missions. He was ordained as a Catholic Priest in 1954. After ordination he taught high school for 12…

- Kind: Short
- Year: 1954
- Runtime: 7 min
- By: Joseph Beckman
- Genres: Religion
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- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Joseph Beckman
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