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OBITUARY
Reverend Frederic J. Harrer
Pastor Emeritus, Church of St. Ignatius Loyola,
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Reverend Frederic Joseph Harrer who served as a priest
for 60 years in the Dioceses of Brooklyn and Rockville
Centre died August 21 at the Rockville Nursing Center in
Rockville Centre after a long illness. He was 86 years
old.
Born on July 3, 1919 in Brooklyn to the late Fred and
Marie Huether Harrer, he attended St. Martha’s Parochial
School in Ridgewood and Cathedral Minor Seminary in
Brooklyn, and continued his studies for the priesthood
at the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in
Huntington.
Father Harrer was ordained a priest at St. James
Pro-Cathedral on April 3,1945 by Bishop Thomas E.
Molloy. His first assignments as an associate pastor
were to St. James Pro-Cathedral and the parish of St.
Monica in Jamaica.
Father Harrer moved to Long Island and the growing
parish of St. Patrick in Bay Shore in 1948. In 1961,
Father Harrer was named an Associate Pastor at the
Church of St. Dominic in Oyster Bay and was transferred
to Our Lady of Peace in Lynbrook in 1965. In 1967 he was
named an Associate Pastor at Holy Spirit Church in New
Hyde Park.
Two years later Father Harrer was named Pastor of the
Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in Hicksville. In 1976 as
part of a cover story on Vatican II, a profile of the
church was featured in Time Magazine. Titled “A Parish
That Hopes and Copes”, the article focused on the
physical and structural changes in the parish under the
leadership of Father Harrer. In the article, Father
Harrer said he believed Vatican II “has given people a
new challenge - to describe their faith not in the
exercise of practices but in the depth of their soul.”
In his 21 years at St. Ignatius Loyola, Father Harrer
completed three rounds of parish visits and was working
on his fourth when he retired in 1990.
A wake for Father Harrer will be held from 2:00 to 5:00
p.m. on Tuesday, August 23 at the Thomas F. Dalton
Funeral Home in Hicksville. Monsignor Donald Hanson will
preside at a Vigil Mass 7:30 p.m. that evening at the
Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in Hicksville. Monsignor
Donald Bennett will be the homilist.
Bishop John Dunne will be the principal celebrant at the
Funeral Mass on Wednesday,
August 24 at 11:00 a.m. at the church. The homily will
be delivered by Father James Carmody. Burial will be at
St. Charles Cemetery.
Father Harrer is survived by his two sisters; Kathleen
Clune of Levittown and Miriam Langan of Massachussetts.
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