These photographs from Bernadine Barker give us a glimpse of the parish in the 1940s:

Fr. Patrick J. Barrett and Norbert Moore (brother of Bernadine Barker), on East Pierce Street, Kirksville, 1942.

This picture from September 1944 shows (front) Fr. Mel Newman, pastor of St. Mary's of Adair from 1942-1956,  and Fr. Patrick J. Barrett. Behind, an unknown priest on the viewer's left, and Fr. Kevin McGonigle on the right.

Fr. Kevin McGonigle at St. Mary's of Adair in September, 1944

Fr. Patrick J. Barrett in the yard of St. Mary's Adair, September 1944.

Fr. Kevin McGonigle in the yard of St. Mary's Adair, September 1944.