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Obituaries organizing annual workshops on community housing issues, such as mortgage redlining and insurance availability; and eventually serving as Vice President. In Chicago, Catholic Charities' Senior Citizen Services built a Senior Apartment Building on the Northwest Side in conjunction with the National Council of Senior Citizens. During the 1970s, Father Coughlin secured the former St. Vincent Hospital as a Catholic Charities center, opening the Arts of Living Institute to serve pregnant teens. Today, the St.

Vincent Center is a center for Catholic Charities' administration and numerous programs, including daily suppers for 130 homeless and hungry people in the area. In 1974, he initiated a plan for redeveloping the Angel Guardian Orphanage site as a Catholic Charities center. Father Coughlin served as vice president of the National Council of Catholic Charities for two years; organized the National Parent Rights Movement; and founded and served as director of Catholic Charities Research Services from 1978 until 1990. In 1986, he was appointed the first director of the Archdiocesan Respect Life Office; and in 1987, he established the Maternity Fund to assist families who were insured, but had no maternity coverage. In 1993, Father Coughlin retired and became an almost full-time volunteer at Catholic Charities.

spearheaded the development of parents clubs and organized the Catholic Charities component of the diocesan Head Start program, including a central council for up to 20 Head Start centers; recruited social workers from graduate schools of social work throughout the country; and hired an organizer who developed almost 300 parish Senior Citizen Clubs and activities. Father Coughlin worked with the foster care and adoption services, served as the first director of family, aged and community services, and established Catholic Charities Research Services. He initiated and was especially identified with many special programs at Catholic Charities: Adoptive Parent Clubs, the Head Start program, and the Cuban Refugee Children Program in the 1960s. In 1969, Father Coughlin established the South Asian Resettlement program serving Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees, and the Vietnamese Refugee Services in the 1970s. As Chicago's neighborhoods changed, the Community Services program worked with parishes and pastors, educating and organizing parishioners to play leadership roles in local community organizations in order to deal with urban unrest and the needs of youth and families.

This led to a rehabilitation project of neighborhood housing. During this time, Father Coughlin actively participated in the National Conference of Catholic Charities, In 2006, at the annual meeting of Catholic Charities Board of Advisors, the prestigious Caritas Christi Urget Nos (The Love of Christ Impels Us) Award was presented to Father Coughlin for his dedication to serving the poor and vulnerable. A writer as well as an organizer and administrator, Father Coughlin in recent years wrote "Words for the Spirit," a monthly column in Catholic Charities' Keenager News, a free monthly newspaper for seniors. Both spiritual and reminiscent, his columns include family and boyhood memories in his South Side neighborhood, favorite vacation pastimes of golf and fishing, the wisdom of updating your will, and the "angels" in his life who helped him restore "most of his legal identity" after he lost his wallet. Father Coughlin researched and contributed to a major work about the local Catholic Charities titled "Caritas Christi Urget Nos: Institutional History of the Archdiocese of Chicago." (1981); and he researched and wrote with Catheryn A.

Riplinger "The Story of Charitable Care in the Archdiocese of Chicago: 1844-1997." He updated the latter history in 2009 with his personal accounting of the time in Catholic Charities from 1950 with "The Story of Charitable Care in the Archdiocese of Chicago: 1950-2007." See OBITUARIES, page 34 Coughlin served as assistant pastor at Our Lady of the Angels in Chicago until 1956, when at age 30, he became an assistant director of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago. During his first 16 years at Catholic Charities, he also served as Chaplain to the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, and the staff and residents at St. Vincent Hospital and Infant Home. He "retired" in recent years from full-time duties, but continued as Associate Administrator, with a short "commute" to his office each day from his apartment in the St.

Vincent Center on North LaSalle, now the main office of Catholic Charities in Chicago. Father Coughlin was a graduate of Little Flower Grade School, Quigley Preparatory Seminary, and St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein, where he earned baccalaureate and licentiate degrees in sacred theology. He studied psychology and counseling at Loyola University graduate school, and earned his master's degree at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago in 1964. Over the ensuing decades, Father Coughlin became the founder, organizer or innovator of numerous Catholic Charities social-service programs that served people in need throughout Cook and Lake counties.

As the War on Poverty began, he The deadline for obituary notices is 5 p.m. Monday. Obituaries can be e-mailed to wjobitsweeklyjournals.com. For more information, contact Kathy Gresey at HUGOCESO Died: April 8, 2010 Hugo Ceso, 86, of McHenry and formerly of Grayslake and Chicago, died April 8. Hugo was the beloved husband of the late Lorraine (nee Lezotte); loving father of Cecilia (Richard) Valant, Elizabeth (Ross) Curley, Anthony (Diana) Ceso, and the late Mark Ceso; dear grandfather of Steven (Tracey) and Thomas (Julie) Valant; and beloved great-grandfather of Zachary, Taylor, Makayla, Emma, and Ethan.

Hugo will be greatly missed by his family and friends. A memorial visitation is scheduled for Saturday April 24 from 10:30 a.m. until the memorial service at 11:30 a.m. at Strang Funeral Chapel Crematorium, 410 E. Belvidere Road, in Grayslake.

Interment will be private. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Heart Association, the Alzheimer's Foundation, or the charity of your choice. For information, call 847-223-8122 or visit www.strangfuneral.org. Please sign the guest book at iBflBi iililiv lllllllHllll' Wash 12 Loads Get Your Meat Deli Produce Bakery Liquor Dairy 25s THE REV. ROGER J.

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