Emilián-Foltýn-Obituary

Emilián Frank Foltýn

Austin, Texas

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Rev. Msgr. Emilián Frank Foltýn Rev. Msgr. Emilián Frank Foltýn, at the age of 73 and a Catholic priest for 48 years, died on September 5, 2012, on Kodiak Island, Alaska. He was born on November 3, 1938, in Bartlett, Texas, to Frank Frederick and Ann L. Chovanec Foltýn. He graduated from...

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I just received the news and to Fr. Foltyn's family, I met Fr. Foltyn when he was at St. Mary's in Waco, Texas in the late 1960s. He and Fr. Jessie were a very young priests at the time. My two young daughters were in Catholic school there at the time. My oldest little daughter was terminally ill, and we had to make frequent trips to Texas Children's Hospital in Houston. Most every visit, we would stop and visit with Father after he was moved from Waco. I am not sure, but I think he was in...

As our dear friend Msgr. Emilian, we will miss you; and to your family, our thoughts and prayers.

Rosalie Wright and Family

Father Folytn gave me my instructions when I decided to become a Catholic in 1976. On the day I turned 25 I went to my instructions in tears. I was upset that I was getting "old"....He had me laughing, by singing me "The Lord's Prayer". As I remember he couldn't sing very well or maybe it was just the way he sang it that day. He kept in touch with me for about a year after I moved to Germany with my children and husband who was in the Army, because I still had a way to go before I could join...

Sep 11,2012

We will miss visiting with Msgr. Foltyn
when we are in the Corn Hill area. Our prayers and throughts are with his family.

Harry & Verna Tschoerner Fort Worth, Tx.

We really enjoyed Msgr. Foltyn, our daughter & husband are parishioners and when we come to vist, we enjoyed visiting with him.

Our thoughts and prayers are with you in your time of grief. May your memories bring you comfort.