Popular Danville priest dies with friends at his bedside

DANVILLE – The Danville community has lost a man considered to be an institution with the quiet passing of Monsignor Charles Bourke Motsett early Monday morning.

Known by most simply as Father Motsett, the Catholic priest spent more than half of his 98 years in Danville and was known throughout the community.

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