Rock Island County IL Archives Obituaries.....Graves, Fr Joseph Anthony December 30, 2002
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The Rock Island Argus on Friday January 3, 2003
A Mass of the Resurrection for Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Joseph Graves, U.S. Army 
(retired), 71, of Gig Harbor, Wash., Formerly of Rock Island, will be 11 a.m. 
Monday at St. Pius X Catholic Church, Rock Island. The Very Rev. Daniel R. 
Jenky, C.S.C, D.D., Bishop of the Peoria Diocese, will be Celebrant. Burial 
will be in National Cemetery, Arsenal Island.
Visitation is 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the church, where a Christian wake service 
will be conducted at 5 p.m. Additional visitation will be one hour prior to 
the service Monday. Wheelan Funeral Home, Rock Island, is in charge of 
arrangements. Memorials may be made to Clergy Aid, Inc. Diocese of Peoria.
Father Graves died Monday, Dec. 30, 2002, at Cottesmore of Lifecare, Gig 
Harbor.
Father Graves was born Nov. 5, 1931, in Rock Island, the son of Samuel and 
Rosalie Baur Graves. He graduated from the former St. Joseph Grade and High 
Schools, Rock Island, and from St. Bede College, Peru, Ill.
He completed studies for the priesthood at St. Paul Seminary, St. Paul, Minn., 
and was ordained a priest for the Peoria Diocese by Bishop William E. Cousins, 
May 27, 1956, at St. Mary's Cathedral, Peoria.
Father Graves served as an assistant at Immaculate Conception Parish, 
Monmouth, Ill., from 1956-1959, and as an assistant at St. John's Parish, 
Peoria, from 1959-1963, when he enlisted in the U.S. Army. He retired from the 
Army with the rank of Lt. Col in 1986. From 1991 to 2001, he assisted at 
various parishes in the Colorado Springs Diocese. Father Graves went on Senior 
Priest status in 2002.
He was a member of the Knights of Columbus.
Survivors include a brother, Francis Edward Graves, Ukiah, Calif,; sisters 
Catherine Therese Dahl, Oakdale, Calif., Delores Jean Ransom, Los Gatos, 
Calif., Patricia A. Green, Pocahontas, Ariz., and Roberta Joan White, Gig 
Harbor; and a number of nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by a 
sister, Mary Rosalie Cross, his parents, a niece and several nephews.

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