Father Lowell Case, S.S.J., dies at 80

A funeral Mass for Josephite Father Lowell David Case, a Baltimore native who ministered at St. Peter Claver/St. Pius V in West Baltimore, will be offered April 12 at 11 a.m. at the Church of the Incarnation in Washington, D.C. Father Case died April 5. He was 80 and had been a Josephite priest for more than four decades.

Raised in St. Pius V parish, where he attended the parish elementary school, Father Case was drawn to the priesthood later in life. He had previously completed a bachelor’s degree from what is now Coppin State University in Baltimore and served as a teacher at Fannie L. Barbour Elementary School and then personnel specialist with the Civil Service Commission. He was an investigator at the U.S. Custom House in Baltimore.

According to a 2020 article in The Josephite Harvest, Father Case had served on the school board of St. Pius V School and was active in the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Office of Urban Affairs before deciding to join St. Joseph’s Society of the Sacred Heart, the Baltimore-based society of priests and brothers who serve the African-American community around the country. 

Father Case, known as a direct and plainspoken man, entered the Josephite novitiate in 1977 and was ordained in May 1980. He served in Texas, Louisiana and Washington, D.C. before assisting at St. Peter Claver/St. Pius V from 2017 to 2020. He had been suffering declining health in his later years. 

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