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Priest■ Continued from Page A-1brate on my 60th ordination.”Hailed by friends as a “priest’s priest” because of his dedication to his vocation and service to St. Mary’s, the hearty Suddes remains active today.He lives in the Marian Heights apartment community, where he is the chaplain and says Mass daily. He celebrates Benediction every Sunday in the St. Anthony’s Convent chapel and says two Sunday masses at Holy Ghost Catholic Church in Jersey-ville.“It keeps me moving,” he said with a laugh.Born in Springfield Oct. 22, 1911, he was one of five children of George and Ellen Suddes. His two sisters are Dominican nuns, Sister Imel-da and Sister Mary, bothretired and living in the Sacred Heart convent in Springfield.His brother, George, retired from the Bunn Co. of coffee maker fame, lives in Florida. Younger brother Tom, who worked for a telephone company, died in 1970.It was the training Suddes 1 got in Catholic school in j Springfield that led him to the * priesthood, he said. He attended Quincy College, then f entered Kenrick Seminary in St. Louis and became the first priest to be ordained in the ^Cathedral of the Immaculate f Conception in Springfield in 1938. !“He grows on you,” said t Michael Jennings, a retired ^ pharmacist and a friend of Suddes’ for 40 years. “He’s . there when you need him. . He’s just the all-around priest.
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Alton Telegraph
Alton, Illinois, US
Tue, Oct 22, 1996
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