Funeral Mass for Father M. Edmund Hussey, 92, who died Thursday, August 21 at Mother Angeline McCrory Manor, Columbus, will be celebrated Friday, Aug. 29 at Columbus St. Agatha Church. Burial will be at Graceland Cemetery, Sidney.
Father Hussey was a priest of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati who retired in 1998, moved to Columbus to be closer to family members and served for many years as senior associate pastor at Columbus St. Agatha Church.
He was born on June 24, 1933 in Sidney to Millard and Ida (Ernst) Hussey.
He was ordained on May 31, 1958 at Cincinnati St. Peter in Chains Cathedral by Cincinnati Archbishop Karl Alter and spent the first 11 years of his priesthood as associate pastor at several Cincinnati parishes and a teacher at Cincinnati Archbishop Elder High School.
After three years of postgraduate study at Fordham University, he joined the faculty at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West in Norwood, where he was a teacher for 10 years. He also taught classes at the University of Dayton and other institutions, was archivist for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and wrote several books on the archdiocese’s history and more than 80 monographs, articles and reviews.
He was pastor for nine years at Yellow Springs St. Paul Church and seven years at Springfield St. Raphael Church before his retirement.
He is survived by a brother, Joseph (Kyong) and many nieces and nephews.