Joseph Burgio
Joseph Burgio, 71, of Rochester, New York, formerly of Chicago, Illinois, died October 10. Born in 1953, he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in music education and organ at Nazareth College, Rochester, and a Master of Arts degree in pastoral music, awarded jointly by Colgate-Rochester Divinity School and the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. He studied organ with Barbara Harbach, Will Headlee, and David Craighead and performed in masterclasses at American Guild of Organists conventions for Russell Saunders and Marie-Claire Alain.
Burgio served as musician for Catholic and Lutheran churches in Syracuse, New York; Norfolk, Virginia; and Chicago and Forest Park, Illinois. He performed organ recitals in venues such as the Cathedral of the Holy Name in Chicago and presented workshops at three annual conferences of the Hymn Society of the United States and Canada, which named him a Lovelace Scholar, and for the AGO on local and national levels.
Joseph Burgio is survived by his sister, Carmela (Steve) Key; brother, James (Lisa) Burgio; and nieces and nephews. His funeral Mass was celebrated October 21 at St. Kateri Parish, Christ the King Church, with burial at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Rochester.
Br. Theophane (Fred) Woodall, C. PP.S.
Br. Theophane (Fred) Woodall, C.PP.S., 85, died September 28, 2024, in Carthagena, Ohio, where he had lived and ministered for 55 years. He was born February 7, 1939, in Dayton, Ohio, and raised in nearby Miamisburg. He entered the Missionaries of the Precious Blood Congregation in 1953 and was professed as a religious brother on August 15, 1959. He celebrated his 65th anniversary as a religious brother earlier this year.
After his profession, Br. Theophane ministered for nine years at Brunnerdale, the congregation’s former high school seminary near Canton, Ohio. He then served for a year at St. Mary’s Novitiate in Burkettsville, Ohio, before his assignment in 1969 to St. Charles Seminary, now St. Charles Center, Carthagena, Ohio.
Br. Theophane was the coordinator of liturgy and sacristan at St. Charles for many years. He was also the assistant business manager in the 1990s. After he retired as sacristan in 2018 he continued to serve as organist and as St. Charles local director. He also directed the Precious Blood Resource Center there. For 22 years he taught high school religious education classes in several Mercer County parishes. Br. Theophane was an advocate for the preservation and restoration of the historic 1961 Holtkamp Organ Company Job Number 1743 of three manuals in Assumption Chapel at St. Charles Center. The organ was presented the Organ Historical Society’s Historic Organ Citation #408 on April 17, 2012.
Br. Theophane Woodall, C.PP.S., is survived by nieces and a nephew. His funeral Mass was celebrated in Assumption Chapel at St. Charles Senior Living Center, Celina, Ohio, on October 2.
