last update: 1-21-07

There are updates to the MI school pages, but lots of places where you can help us put names to faces!

thanks to Fr. Michael Coleman, archivist for the Diocese of Kansas City
thanks for editorial assistance to Ms. Tetyana Sydorenko

Draft History of Mary Immaculate Parish, with images and sketch notes

Mary Immaculate School

St. Mary's of Adair

St. Rose of Lima, Novinger

The Kirksville Newman Center

Familiar sights:

Church Fixtures, Altar Furniture

Buildings

Stained Glass

Statuary

Stations of the Cross

Parish Photos from the 1940s: from Bernadine Barker

A Roster of priests at Mary Immaculate, Adair, St. Rose and Newman

Fr. Bernard Patrick McMenomy, horseback missionary and founder of St. Mary's

Richard Vincent remembers the Mary Immaculate of the 1930s

More pictures from our past -- have a look, and see if you can identify some of these folks!

memoirs of a convert and reconvert

A Listing of Burials in Mary Immaculate Cemetery (Kirksville), by Claudia Minor: (.pdf file):
http://www.rootsweb.com/~moadair/cemeteries/c-HighlandPark1.PDF

A Listing of Burials in St. Mary’s Cemetery (Adair), by Claudia Minor: (.pdf file):
http://www.rootsweb.com/~moadair/cemeteries/c-saintmarys.pdf

On the subject of cemeteries -- the legend of the Baird "chair" monument

Hope's Kitchen -- a ministry of Mary Immaculate Parish

Select links for Catholics

photo credits for these pages: Bill Minor Family, Claudia Minor, Adam Davis, Kirksville Daily Express, Catholic Missourian, Diocese of Jefferson City, Pickler Memorial Library (Truman State University), Adair County Historical Society, Scotty Mihalevich, Karen Platz Hutchens