Obituary

Josephite priest, Father John Hardman, 89, died April 20, at St. Joseph Manor in Baltimore, one day shy of his 90th birthday.

Born in Brooklyn, he attended St. Augustine and Resurrection grammar schools until 1931 and then entered Epiphany Apostolic College, the Josephite minor seminary at Newburgh, N.Y., completing his high school and first two college years there. After the Josephite Novitiate, in 1938 he began his temporary Josephite membership and his major seminary career in Washington, D.C.

Father Hardman

His permanent profession as a Josephite was May 26, 1943 at St. Joseph Seminary in Washington. He was ordained to the priesthood at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D.C., on May 18, 1944.

Father Hardman served as associate pastor and pastor at numerous parishes in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Virginia and the District of Columbia. He also worked as a coordinator for the 1968 renewal of the Josephites. He retired in 2001.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at St. Joseph Manor in Baltimore. Burial was in New Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore.

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