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Rev John A. Dapp

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Rev John A. Dapp

Birth
Waterloo, DeKalb County, Indiana, USA
Death
28 Feb 1956 (aged 64)
Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
Plot
Priest's Section O, Lot 256
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Age 64. Heart attack. We were told he got inside the door of the rectory and collapsed and died after walking a couple blocks from the Central Catholic High School in the cold.

The day before he had climbed the stairs to the 8th grade classroom looking very grey in color to me, because someone had written bad words in the boys bathroom in the basement outside the gym. It could have beem another grade or even someone from another school there for an intermural game, but the nun, Sr. Mary Terese, wanted him to raise cain with us. However he was very gentle and soft spoken as usual and so non-judgemental I don't remember anything he said. He was always nice. After he died the next day the nun blamed the whole class for killing him and informed us we would not have a graduation or graduation party as punishment. I had been looking foward to that. She should have blamed herself for making him climb all those stairs. Funny part was most of us didn't even know about dirty words, we were so isolated. Never did find out which ones.

We could go and make a visit during recess and walk up close. He had an expensive casket with a glass dome sealed against anyone getting carried away about his death.

We were always sent to the rectory after school for the slightest perceived infraction, the punishment being more for our parents and so they would be sure to know, as they had to pick us up later since we would have missed our various rides. He would say what did you do and then sigh, like it was idiotic to send us there for nothing and put our parents out, and say ok I'll call your parents, here have some cookies. He was so normal and balanced among the daily idiocies.

Other parish priests at the time, Rev. Eugene Zimmerman, gave old fashioned fire and brimstone sermons complete with pounding fists from pulpit on all the subjects that are not PC today, Rev. Philip Fusco, was sweet & worked with kids a lot, Rev. Donald Isenbarger, was new and pretty quiet.

OBITUARY 2/29/1956 (leap year) JG/NS Fort Wayne, IN
Services To Be Held Saturday for Msgr. John A. Dapp, 64
Funeral services will be conducted Saturday for the Right Reverend Monsignor John A. Dapp, 64, rector of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception here, who died about 9:30 PM Tuesday about an hour after a heart attack.

The rites will begin at 9:30 AM Saturday with the Reading of the Office. Solemn High Mass will be at 10 AM the most Reverend Leo A. Pursley, apostolic administrator of the Fort Wayne Diocese officiating.

The Reverend Dominic Diederich, pastor of the St. Maurice Catholic Church in Chicago, will be celebrant of the mass. The Rev. Edward Miller, pastor of St. Mary's Church in Huntington and a cousin of Msgr Dapp, will be deacon and the Rev. Herman Millr, pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Whiting and a cousin, subdeacon.

Masters of ceremonies will be the Reverend Stanley Manoski, pastor of St. Joseph's church and former Cathedral assistant and the Reverend Arthur MacDonald, assistant pastor of St. John the Baptist Church and also a former Cathedral assistant.

Attending Bishop Pursley in the sanctuary will be the Very Reverend Msgr. John A. Bapst, pastor of St. Peter's Church and a cousin to Msr. Dapp and the Very Reverend Msgr. Charles A. Girardot, pastor of St. Jude's Catholic Church.

Burial will be in the priest's section at Catholic Cemetery.

The body is at the Getz & Eikenberry Southside Chapel, where friends may call from 10 AM Thursday until 10 AM Friday. The body will then be taken to the church to lie in state until time of services.

Prior to his death, Msgr. Dapp became ill while attending an organizational meeting for the Allen County Catholic High Schools Campaign at Central Catholic High School. He returned without help to the rectory where priests summoned his physician, Dr. Raymond Berghoff. The latter immediately called an ambulance, but Msgr. Dapp was near death when it arrived.

The Last Sacraments of the Catholic Church were administered shortly before death by the Rev. Philip Fusco, one of the assistant pastors of the Cathedral.

The fatal attack was the second heart attack Msgr. Dapp had in the past three years. After an attack in the fall of 1952, he was hospitalized about a month. He had been performing his full duties until the time of his death.

Msgr. Dapp, a native of Waterloo, was the son of Henry and Magdalene Dapp. Following his elementary education, he studied six years at St. Lawrence College in Mount Calvary, WI. He completed his studies for the priesthood at St. Meinrad's Seminary, St. Meinrad, IN.

June 16, 1916, he was ordained priest in the Cathedral by the late Bishop Herman J. Alerding, and he celebrated his first Solemn Mass June 22, 1916 at St. Michael's Church, Waterloo. He had spent nearly 40 years as priest serving the Fort Wayne Diocese.

His first appointment, which he served six years, was as assistant pastor to the late R. Rev. Msgr. Charles H. Thiele at St. Peter's Church here. He then was assistant Cathedral rector five years to the late Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas M. Conroy.

In June 1927, Msgr. Dapp was named first pastor of St. Joan of Arc Parish, Kokomo and in April 1929, he was appointed first pastor at the then newly-established St. Jude parish in Fort Wayne, by the Most Rev. John F. Noll, bishop-archbishop of Fort Wayne Diocese. He was made a Right Reverend Monsignor in 1945.

Msgr. Dapp became rector of the Cathedral Nov. 13, 1945, after the death of Msgr. Conroy. while he served the Cathedral, extensive interior redecoration was compelted and the exterior resurfaced and restoned. A memorial chapel also was constructed in Cathedral Square.

He was director of Fort Wayne Diocesan Music Commission and was former chaplain of Fort Wayne Council, Knights of Columbus and of Daughters of Isabella. He had also been affiliated with a number of other Catholic Lay organizations and was a member of Fourth Degree, Knights of Columbus.

Surviving are five sisters, Mrs. John May, Mrs. Theresa Schlosser, Mrs. Catherine Miller, all of Waterloo, Mrs. Elizabeth Hohl, Mishawaka, and Miss Louise Dapp, who resided with Msgr. Dapp and served as his housekeeper, two brothers, Albert Dapp, Waterloo, and Anthony Dapp, Fostoria Ohio. A surviving niece is a member of the Sisterhood.

Beginning at 3:30 PM Friday various Cathedral organizations will have Rosary services in the Cathedral. The first service will be conducted by the Catholic Youth Council.

Blessed Virgin Sodality will have services at 4 PM; Legion of Mary 6 PM; St. Vincent dePaul; 6:30 PM; Catholic Fisher Group 7 PM; Rosary Sodality 7:30 PM; Holy Name Society 8 PM; Christian Family Movement 8:30 PM; and Catholic Convert Club 9 PM.

At various times Friday the school children also will recite the rosary in the Cathedral.

The pontifical high Mass scheduled at the Cathedral for Pope Pius XII Friday evening has been cancelled.


Age 64. Heart attack. We were told he got inside the door of the rectory and collapsed and died after walking a couple blocks from the Central Catholic High School in the cold.

The day before he had climbed the stairs to the 8th grade classroom looking very grey in color to me, because someone had written bad words in the boys bathroom in the basement outside the gym. It could have beem another grade or even someone from another school there for an intermural game, but the nun, Sr. Mary Terese, wanted him to raise cain with us. However he was very gentle and soft spoken as usual and so non-judgemental I don't remember anything he said. He was always nice. After he died the next day the nun blamed the whole class for killing him and informed us we would not have a graduation or graduation party as punishment. I had been looking foward to that. She should have blamed herself for making him climb all those stairs. Funny part was most of us didn't even know about dirty words, we were so isolated. Never did find out which ones.

We could go and make a visit during recess and walk up close. He had an expensive casket with a glass dome sealed against anyone getting carried away about his death.

We were always sent to the rectory after school for the slightest perceived infraction, the punishment being more for our parents and so they would be sure to know, as they had to pick us up later since we would have missed our various rides. He would say what did you do and then sigh, like it was idiotic to send us there for nothing and put our parents out, and say ok I'll call your parents, here have some cookies. He was so normal and balanced among the daily idiocies.

Other parish priests at the time, Rev. Eugene Zimmerman, gave old fashioned fire and brimstone sermons complete with pounding fists from pulpit on all the subjects that are not PC today, Rev. Philip Fusco, was sweet & worked with kids a lot, Rev. Donald Isenbarger, was new and pretty quiet.

OBITUARY 2/29/1956 (leap year) JG/NS Fort Wayne, IN
Services To Be Held Saturday for Msgr. John A. Dapp, 64
Funeral services will be conducted Saturday for the Right Reverend Monsignor John A. Dapp, 64, rector of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception here, who died about 9:30 PM Tuesday about an hour after a heart attack.

The rites will begin at 9:30 AM Saturday with the Reading of the Office. Solemn High Mass will be at 10 AM the most Reverend Leo A. Pursley, apostolic administrator of the Fort Wayne Diocese officiating.

The Reverend Dominic Diederich, pastor of the St. Maurice Catholic Church in Chicago, will be celebrant of the mass. The Rev. Edward Miller, pastor of St. Mary's Church in Huntington and a cousin of Msgr Dapp, will be deacon and the Rev. Herman Millr, pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Whiting and a cousin, subdeacon.

Masters of ceremonies will be the Reverend Stanley Manoski, pastor of St. Joseph's church and former Cathedral assistant and the Reverend Arthur MacDonald, assistant pastor of St. John the Baptist Church and also a former Cathedral assistant.

Attending Bishop Pursley in the sanctuary will be the Very Reverend Msgr. John A. Bapst, pastor of St. Peter's Church and a cousin to Msr. Dapp and the Very Reverend Msgr. Charles A. Girardot, pastor of St. Jude's Catholic Church.

Burial will be in the priest's section at Catholic Cemetery.

The body is at the Getz & Eikenberry Southside Chapel, where friends may call from 10 AM Thursday until 10 AM Friday. The body will then be taken to the church to lie in state until time of services.

Prior to his death, Msgr. Dapp became ill while attending an organizational meeting for the Allen County Catholic High Schools Campaign at Central Catholic High School. He returned without help to the rectory where priests summoned his physician, Dr. Raymond Berghoff. The latter immediately called an ambulance, but Msgr. Dapp was near death when it arrived.

The Last Sacraments of the Catholic Church were administered shortly before death by the Rev. Philip Fusco, one of the assistant pastors of the Cathedral.

The fatal attack was the second heart attack Msgr. Dapp had in the past three years. After an attack in the fall of 1952, he was hospitalized about a month. He had been performing his full duties until the time of his death.

Msgr. Dapp, a native of Waterloo, was the son of Henry and Magdalene Dapp. Following his elementary education, he studied six years at St. Lawrence College in Mount Calvary, WI. He completed his studies for the priesthood at St. Meinrad's Seminary, St. Meinrad, IN.

June 16, 1916, he was ordained priest in the Cathedral by the late Bishop Herman J. Alerding, and he celebrated his first Solemn Mass June 22, 1916 at St. Michael's Church, Waterloo. He had spent nearly 40 years as priest serving the Fort Wayne Diocese.

His first appointment, which he served six years, was as assistant pastor to the late R. Rev. Msgr. Charles H. Thiele at St. Peter's Church here. He then was assistant Cathedral rector five years to the late Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas M. Conroy.

In June 1927, Msgr. Dapp was named first pastor of St. Joan of Arc Parish, Kokomo and in April 1929, he was appointed first pastor at the then newly-established St. Jude parish in Fort Wayne, by the Most Rev. John F. Noll, bishop-archbishop of Fort Wayne Diocese. He was made a Right Reverend Monsignor in 1945.

Msgr. Dapp became rector of the Cathedral Nov. 13, 1945, after the death of Msgr. Conroy. while he served the Cathedral, extensive interior redecoration was compelted and the exterior resurfaced and restoned. A memorial chapel also was constructed in Cathedral Square.

He was director of Fort Wayne Diocesan Music Commission and was former chaplain of Fort Wayne Council, Knights of Columbus and of Daughters of Isabella. He had also been affiliated with a number of other Catholic Lay organizations and was a member of Fourth Degree, Knights of Columbus.

Surviving are five sisters, Mrs. John May, Mrs. Theresa Schlosser, Mrs. Catherine Miller, all of Waterloo, Mrs. Elizabeth Hohl, Mishawaka, and Miss Louise Dapp, who resided with Msgr. Dapp and served as his housekeeper, two brothers, Albert Dapp, Waterloo, and Anthony Dapp, Fostoria Ohio. A surviving niece is a member of the Sisterhood.

Beginning at 3:30 PM Friday various Cathedral organizations will have Rosary services in the Cathedral. The first service will be conducted by the Catholic Youth Council.

Blessed Virgin Sodality will have services at 4 PM; Legion of Mary 6 PM; St. Vincent dePaul; 6:30 PM; Catholic Fisher Group 7 PM; Rosary Sodality 7:30 PM; Holy Name Society 8 PM; Christian Family Movement 8:30 PM; and Catholic Convert Club 9 PM.

At various times Friday the school children also will recite the rosary in the Cathedral.

The pontifical high Mass scheduled at the Cathedral for Pope Pius XII Friday evening has been cancelled.




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