Community mourns and remembers priest killed in crash
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Updated: 8:59 PM MDT May 26, 2021
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Updated: 8:59 PM MDT May 26, 2021
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LIFE OF FATHER GRAHAM GOLN.DE REPOERRT: THE SUDDEN LOSS OF FATHER GRAHAM HAS HAD PEOPLE MOURN HIS LOSS AN REFLECT ON THE LOVEND A DEVOTION HE HAD TO HELPING OTHERS. >> GRAHAM HAD TSHI ABILITY TO, I THINK, MAKE EVERY FEEL LIKE HE WAS ALWAYS THERE FOR YOU. EVEN THOUGH HE WAS IN A MILLION DI FFERENT PLACES. REPORTER: FOR PEOPLE WHO KNEW HIM, HE WAS MORE THAN JUST A PRIEST. >> NOT ONLY DID I LOSE A PRIEST, NOT JUST A PRIEST, BUT A FRIEND. YOU KNOW. WE'VE ALSO LOST A BROTHER. HE WAS -- HE WAS LEIK FAMY. REPORTER: SELFLESS, CARING AND COMPASSIONATE ARE ALL WORDS PEOPLE USED TO DESCRIBE GRAHAM. >> HWAE S ALWAYS DOING MINISTRY, ALWAYS HELPING OTHER PEOPLE. REPORTER: HE RARELY SAID NO. >> IF YOU INVITED HIM TO SOMETHING HE'D MAKE TIME FOR IT. WHETHER IT WAS OUTF O HIS WAY, WHETHER IT DIDN'T FIT HIS SCHEDULE, HE MADE SURE HE WAS THE. >> WE HAD A SPECIAL ONE-ON-ONE RELATIONSHIP. REPORTER: AS A PRIEST HE WANTED TO HAVE TRUST WITH PEOPLE INHE T COMMUNITY. >> HE WANTED TO MAKE SEWER WHEN YOU APPROACHED HIM YOU FELT COMFORTABLE WITHIM H. REPORTER: THOUGH HIS DEATH IS A LOSS, FATHER GRAHAM SPENT HIS LIFE DEVOTED TO HELPING UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES. >> VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE COMMUNY, AND OF COURSE HE WAS A PART OF THE COMMITUN REPORTER: HIS COMPASSION IS SOMETHING ALL WHO KNEW HIM WILL REMEMBER. >> BECAUSE OF HOW MANY LIVE HE IS TUTEDCH HE'S LIVING ON THROUGH ALL OFS. U REPORTER: SERVICES WILL BE HERE AT HYOL ROSARY CHURCH. THE VIGIL AND FUNERAL MASS WILL BE HELD TOMORROW AND FRIDA SHELLY: THEY ARE LOOKING INTO WHETHER PEOPLE STREET PRICING PLAYED A PART IN THE ACCIDENT ATTH GILLED -- THAT KILLE