This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: PEMBLETON Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZaB.2ACE/1450 Message Board Post: Buffalo News, The (NY) - February 18, 1995 REV. AARON PEMBLETON, FRANCISCAN PRIEST A memorial service for the Rev. Aaron Pembleton, a Franciscan priest who was a former Buffalo resident, will be held at 11 a.m. next Saturday in St. Lawrence Catholic Church, 1520 E. Delavan Ave. Father Pembleton, 59, died Feb. 4, 1995, in St. Joseph's Convent in Bryan, Texas, following a lengthy battle with cancer. He was buried in Calvary Cemetery in Quincy, Ill. A graduate of Kensington High School, Father Pembleton had served for 27 years as an associate professor of history at Quincy College in Quincy. He retired in December because of his failing health. During his lengthy tenure at Quincy College, Father Pembleton also taught French for more than 20 years, headed the history department for six years and served on numerous college committees and the College Judicial Board. Born in Bradford, Pa., he moved to Buffalo with his family as a teen-ager and entered St. Joseph's Seminary in Callicoon in 1953. He was ordained in 1962 in St. Francis Catholic Church in Teutopolis, Ill. In addition to his theology degree, Father Pembleton held a bachelor of arts degree from Quincy College and a master's degree from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. In 1976, he was awarded a diploma in French from L'Alliance Francaise in Parish. He also authored numerous scholarly works and translated a history of the Franciscan order from French to English. Because of Father Pembleton's scholarship, Quincy College's first endowed faculty chair was created in 1991 in his honor. During summers, Father Pembleton visited Buffalo for a month and for many years also led summer pilgrimages to Italy, providing guided tours of Rome and Assisi, the town where St. Francis founded the Franciscans. Father Pembleton is survived by two sisters, Alma Botti and Patricia Shaul, both of Cheektowaga; two brothers, Robert of Niagara Falls and James of New York City; and two step-brothers, Francis Burns of Corfu and Dennis Burns. (Condren).