New York Times, 13 December 1930 Rev. Lewis J. O'Hern Since 1921 Mission House Rector at Catholic University Received Papal Blessing in Last Hours WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. -- The Rev. Lewis J. O'Hern, C. S. P., rector of the Apostolic Mission House at Catholic University and editor of The Missionary Magazine, who was in charge of all Catholic army and navy chaplains in the World War, died this morning in the mission house, Brookland, D. C. He has been ill for two years from heart disease. A solemn high mass of requiem will be celebrated at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Burial will be in New York, with a funeral service at 9 P. M. Sunday in the Church of the Paulist Fathers, 415 West Fifty-ninth Street. A pontifical mass of requiem will be celebrated there at 10 A. M. on Monday. He is survived by three brothers and two sisters: the Right Rev. John Francis O'Hern Bishop of Rochester, N. Y.; the Rev. Thomas J. O'Hern, pastor of St. Bartholomew's Church in Buffalo, N. Y.; Colonel P. O'Hern, who was chief ordnance officer with the American Expeditionary Forces in France and who is now commandant at the Presidio, San Francisco, and the Misses Helen and Gertrude O'Hern, both of Rochester, N. Y. In his last hours Father O'Hern received a cablegram from Rome, bringing him the papal blessing. In the World War he was executive secretary of the Catholic Army and Navy Chaplains' Bureau and represented the Catholic Hierarchy of America in the selection and appointment of chaplains. He was one of three who started in the American church in Rome known as the Church of Santa Susanna, under charge of the Paulist Fathers. Father O'Hern was born at Olean, N. Y., on June 12, 1878. He received the degree of Bachelor of Sacred Theology at Catholic University in 1903 and in December of that year was ordained a priest. Father O'Hern, since 1917, had been executive secretary to Cardinal Hayes in the latter's capacity of Bishop Ordinary of the Catholic members of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. From 1912 to 1921 he was Professor of Dogmatic Theology and Canon Law in the Paulist House of Studies in Catholic University of America. He had been rector of the Apostolic Mission House since 1921. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | The Ahern Family Genealogy Website Acton, Massachusetts | http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -