Mass celebrates priest's life

DANVILLE – The ceremony was a fitting sendoff for a man instrumental in the founding of Schlarman High School and St. Paul Grade School, not to mention one who served for 26 years as pastor at St. Paul and many more years as a chaplain and caregiver.

About 75 priests from across the Peoria Diocese joined people in the church and more in the St. Paul gymnasium via closed-circuit television for the funeral Mass for Monsignor Charles Bourke Motsett.

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