Parents: Joseph Leo "Lee" Browning and Mary Agnes Abell.
He was ordained a Passionist Father 6/11/1949. His First Solemn Mass was said at Holy Name of Mary church, Calvary, Ky on 6/12/1949. He took the name Fr. Columban at that time, but later when permitted to do so, took back his original name.
The Lebanon Enterprise, Wednesday, 12/28/2005.
Father WILLIAM BROWNING, 84 died Dec. 20, 2005, in Chicago, Ill. Father Browning was born June 12, 1921, in Calvary. He is preceded in death by: his parents, J. Lee and Agnes Browning; one brother, Father Lawrence Browning; and a sister, Rita Neudecker. Survivors include: four sisters, Josephine Browning of Lebanon, Sister Clarita Browning and Sister Marie Goretti Browning, both of Owensboro, and Rita Watts of Louisville. A funeral Mass was held Dec. 23 at St. Agnes Catholic Church, Newburg Road, Louisville, with burial in the church cemetery.
(abstracted by Dolores Bohn)
He was ordained a Passionist Father 6/11/1949. His First Solemn Mass was said at Holy Name of Mary church, Calvary, Ky on 6/12/1949. He took the name Fr. Columban at that time, but later when permitted to do so, took back his original name.
The Lebanon Enterprise, Wednesday, 12/28/2005.
Father WILLIAM BROWNING, 84 died Dec. 20, 2005, in Chicago, Ill. Father Browning was born June 12, 1921, in Calvary. He is preceded in death by: his parents, J. Lee and Agnes Browning; one brother, Father Lawrence Browning; and a sister, Rita Neudecker. Survivors include: four sisters, Josephine Browning of Lebanon, Sister Clarita Browning and Sister Marie Goretti Browning, both of Owensboro, and Rita Watts of Louisville. A funeral Mass was held Dec. 23 at St. Agnes Catholic Church, Newburg Road, Louisville, with burial in the church cemetery.
(abstracted by Dolores Bohn)
Parents: Joseph Leo "Lee" Browning and Mary Agnes Abell.
He was ordained a Passionist Father 6/11/1949. His First Solemn Mass was said at Holy Name of Mary church, Calvary, Ky on 6/12/1949. He took the name Fr. Columban at that time, but later when permitted to do so, took back his original name.
The Lebanon Enterprise, Wednesday, 12/28/2005.
Father WILLIAM BROWNING, 84 died Dec. 20, 2005, in Chicago, Ill. Father Browning was born June 12, 1921, in Calvary. He is preceded in death by: his parents, J. Lee and Agnes Browning; one brother, Father Lawrence Browning; and a sister, Rita Neudecker. Survivors include: four sisters, Josephine Browning of Lebanon, Sister Clarita Browning and Sister Marie Goretti Browning, both of Owensboro, and Rita Watts of Louisville. A funeral Mass was held Dec. 23 at St. Agnes Catholic Church, Newburg Road, Louisville, with burial in the church cemetery.
(abstracted by Dolores Bohn)
He was ordained a Passionist Father 6/11/1949. His First Solemn Mass was said at Holy Name of Mary church, Calvary, Ky on 6/12/1949. He took the name Fr. Columban at that time, but later when permitted to do so, took back his original name.
The Lebanon Enterprise, Wednesday, 12/28/2005.
Father WILLIAM BROWNING, 84 died Dec. 20, 2005, in Chicago, Ill. Father Browning was born June 12, 1921, in Calvary. He is preceded in death by: his parents, J. Lee and Agnes Browning; one brother, Father Lawrence Browning; and a sister, Rita Neudecker. Survivors include: four sisters, Josephine Browning of Lebanon, Sister Clarita Browning and Sister Marie Goretti Browning, both of Owensboro, and Rita Watts of Louisville. A funeral Mass was held Dec. 23 at St. Agnes Catholic Church, Newburg Road, Louisville, with burial in the church cemetery.
(abstracted by Dolores Bohn)
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