Fr. Michael Joseph Howell

Michael Joseph. Howell, born of the love of Clara (Mager) and Henry in the railroad town of Ottawa, Kansas, on February 11, 1937, came with his parents to Michigan's water wonderland at the end of "The Great Depression" to grow up in and around the farm town of St. Johns. Michael attended St Joseph Catholic Grade School staffed by the Sisters of St. Joseph and graduated from Rodney B. Wilson Public High School in 1956. After three years of college he entered the seminary getting a B.A. from Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, and a Masters from St. John's Provincial Seminary in Plymouth, Michigan. He served for a year as a deacon at St. John's Church, Davison, Michigan. After ordination to the priesthood in 1969 he served in St. Paul's Parish, Owosso; St. Charles Parish, Coldwater; St. Joseph Parish, Battle Creek; St. Rose of Lima Parish, Hastings; and then as chaplain at the Kalamazoo Regional Psychiatric Hospital; concluding his years of ministry as chaplain at the Motherhouse for the Sisters of  Joseph, Nazareth. God has given Michael many good people with whom to travel his years of faith into ever deeper wisdom and grace. For all of you he gives praise to God and to you he says Thanks for so much giving to the quality of his life. God is good! Friends and Family will be received at 7:00 pm at 2929 Nazareth Rd, Kalamazoo, MI 49048 Friday, November 1, 2019, where a wake will be held. Mass of Christian Burial will take place 1:30 Saturday, November 2, 2019 at Nazareth.