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Priest’s Dad Rides Shotgun on Last Rites Calls

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Michigan pastor and his father go to emergency requests for sacraments in a pickup truck.

A few years after Father Joe Krupp’s mother died in 2015, the priest got an idea: Why not have Dad move in?

The four-bedroom rectory at Church of the Holy Family in Grand Blanc, Michigan, built in the early 1960s, a time of plentiful vocations, is too big for the two priests who use it now. A first-floor room was available, so Gordon Krupp, a retired pipefitter who is now 89, wouldn’t have to use the stairs.

Gordon, who raised his family in Montrose, about 25 miles northwest of Grand Blanc, left his house for the rectory.

The very day Gordon moved in, around 2019, a middle-of-the-night urgent call for sacraments came in. Father Joe got up to respond to it.

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