Rev. Walter Debold

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DEBOLD Rev. Walter Debold Seton Hall asst. professor of religious studies Army captain and chaplain, National Guard major, 90 Rev. Walter Debold, 90, of South Orange died Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006, in Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston. Relatives and friends are invited to attend a Mass of Christian Burial at the Main Chapel at Seton Hall University, 400 South Orange Ave., South Orange, on Thursday, Dec. 14, at 10:30 a.m. Interment is in St. Peters Cemetery, Belleville. Rev. Debold will lie in state at the Main Chapel on Wednesday from 2 to 5 and 7 to 8:30 p.m. The Evening Prayer for the Office of the Dead will be held at 7:30 p.m. Arrangements are by the Preston Funeral Home, South Orange. For more information or to send condolences, please visit prestonfuneralhome.net. Born in Newark, Rev. Debold lived in South Orange for 33 years. A graduate of St. Benedicts Prep High School in Newark, he received a B.A. from Seton Hall University in 1938, an M.A. in Theology, Liturgical Studies from Notre Dame University in Indiana in 1966, and an M.A. in Asian Studies from Seton Hall University in 1981. He was ordained as a priest in 1942 from the Immaculate Conception Seminary, Darlington. Rev. Debold served as a captain in the U.S. Army from 1944 to 1947, where he was also chaplain, and served as a major in the National Guard from 1948 to 1953. He was an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Seton Hall University since 1973. Rev. Debold was the beloved son of the late Walter M. and Irene Debold; devoted brother of Anna I. O'Neill, Joseph E. Debold and his wife, Kathleen, and the late M. John and Robert E. Debold, and also survived by many nieces and nephews. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Immaculate Conception Seminary at Seton Hall University, 400 South Orange Ave., South Orange, N.J. 07079 would be appreciated
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