Received an indirect notice that a Roman Catholic Salesian Priest who started a Parish--Holy Rosary-- in Birmingham's Gate City-- when he was a Salesian "Brother", has passed. The note is as follows:
Fr. Adelard "Del"Labonte, SDB, of our Community here in Orange, NJ, who passed away during the night at St. Joseph's Senior Center in Woodbridge. Fr. Del was a WW II navy vet who often spoke of his experiences on the battleship USS Arkansas off the coast of France on D-Day. He spent decades as a brother down in Birmingham, first with Fr. Aloysius Trifari and then with Fr. Pat Corcoran. Del became a priest late in life.
That was all well before my time, but as a former Salesian student, I thought I would pass it on. R.I.P.
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