Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-14

of Chatham; Father j.. H. Smith, OF
Elizabeth; Father Matthew Farley. of
East Orange; Father James Mulhall,
of Newark; Father P. E. Reilly. of
Bayonne; Father F. Di Persia, of New
ark; Father A. De Lantolo, of Nutley;
Father A. Ivanoff, of Bloomfield; Father
w. ]. Richmond, of Newark.
Among the Nutley ~clergymen of Other
denominations present were the Rev,
William Stuart, of the Nutley Re-
formed Church; the Rev. DIR. Warner
Hoagland, Vincent NJ. E. Church
Among the residents of Newark who
were present were former United States
Senator James Smith, jr.. John A. Gull
len, of the Catholic Children's Aid So
ciety; Joseph ]. Mullin, Councillor Will
lam A. Kearns and many others.
When the body of Father Foy was
taken from the church after the serv-
ices the men Pensioners preceded the
hearse to the Belleville township line.
There the members of the church
parted, forming a line on each side OF
the road. With heads uncovered and
forms bent in respect, every man stood
rigid as the body of their beloved pas
tor went by on its way to the Market
SlIt6L ucPOl VI LIS ClliloS wanna Gil
road. This afternoon the 2 O'Clock
train carried the body to Burlington,
where in a special trolley a the
funeral trip was concluded to the ceme-
terry at Mount Holly.
The love and admiration with which
Father Foy was held by his flock was
clearly evidenced by an incident after
the services today.
Many out-of-town priests made tenn
porary quarters at the rectory of the
dead priest. Mrs. D. Swanson, a widow,
81 years old, is the housekeeper in
charge of the house and had been in
Father Toys employ for four years.
A man ran into the rectory and in
quired If a certain priest was there.
Mrs. Swanson shook her head in the
negative, and when the stranger stood
watching her she said: Il don't know
who is mere and who is not. Father
Foy is gone and that is all 1 can think
of. How we do miss him. In all my
life I have never met a kinder man and
one who so easily won the hearts of his
flock.
-Four years ago when he admins
tered the last rites Of the church to my
dying husband the priest consoled me
and after my bereavement offered me
a home as his housekeeper. l would do
anything in the world for him; he was
a living saint At this point the sun
shone brightly through the library
windows on a portrayal of the Last
Supper" worked in bronze and hanging
on the wall. Fearful the image might
become d~iscolored, the gray-haired
woman went to the windows to lower
the shades. Although this task re-
quired very little strength, the faithful
oma bit her lips and frowned at the
shades. doubtless to keep back the
tears that already stained her cheeks.
The state Charities Aid and Prison
Reform Association has adopted the
following resolution on Father Foy's
death:
ut is with a sense of irreparable loss
and a feeling of deep sorrow that the
state Charities Aid and Prison Reform
Association of New Jersey makes rec
ord of the death on Sunday, December
IL, of Father Francis A. Foy. He had
been an active member of the associa-
ton for many years, and its secretary
since 1904. This was a labor of love.
The beginning of his work In New Jer-
sey, as a minister of the Catholic
Church. was also the beginning of an
active interest in all of Il present
day social problems hat made him also
a minister to all the people without
regard to sect or faith. He gave him
self without stint to the work of this
association and many others whose aim
is the uplift of the weak and fallen.
He was in very truth a guide. counsel
Ior and friend 1t is useless to attempt
to describe his character more than
this: He had all those qualities that
won for him the love and confidence
of those who knew him. He needs no
other epitaph. 1t is through the life
and work OF such men that Gods king
dom on earth must come.
December Is. 1910"