Redemptorist Father Richard Quinn served Holy Name Parish, Omaha police

Redemptorist Father Richard “Dick” Quinn served unwaveringly and enthusiastically as a parish priest and as an Army and police chaplain.

His more than six decades of priestly service included two assignments at Holy Name Parish in Omaha, from 1964 to 1969, and later from 1999 to 2002, when he was pastor of the parish and superior of the local Redemptorist community.

During his second Omaha assignment, he also was a chaplain for the Omaha Police Department.

Father Quinn died July 29 while in hospice care at the St. Clement Redemptorist Mission Community in Barnhart, Missouri, his religious community said. He was 87.

A funeral Mass was Aug. 2 at the St. Clement community in Barnhart. Burial was at the Redemptorist Cemetery there.

Father Quinn was born in 1937 in Kansas City, Missouri, just two blocks from Our Lady of Perpetual Help Redemptorist Parish. After graduating from Redemptorist Grade School, he entered the Redemptorist formation program at St. Joseph Preparatory College in Kirkwood, Missouri, followed by his novitiate at Mount St. Clement’s in DeSoto, Missouri.

He professed temporary vows on Aug. 2, 1957, and completed theological studies at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.

He professed final vows on Sept. 2, 1960, and was ordained a priest in Milwaukee on Dec. 27, 1962.

Father Quinn served in Colorado, Minnesota, Michigan, Missouri,  Idaho and Washington.

His service as an Army chaplain took him to bases in Colorado, Louisiana and Germany.