Reverend Arthur K. Wingate, age 94, died on December 30, 2024, in Sacred Heart Nursing Home in New Bedford. Reverend Wingate had lived at Cardinal Medeiros Residence in Fall River for the past 24 years.
Born in Wellesley on October 22, 1930, he was the son of Angela (Kirby) and Raymond Wingate.
He graduated from Coyle High School in Taunton, studied for the priesthood at Providence College and graduated from St. John Seminary in Brighton. He was ordained in 1957 by Bishop Connolly.
Rev. Wingate served as associate at St. Joseph’s, Taunton; St. Lawrence the Martyr, New Bedford; St. Mary, Taunton; Sacred Heart, Fall River; Saint Mary’s, Mansfield; St. Mary’s, Norton, and was the Parochial Vicar at St. Dominic’s in Swansea. He was the Chaplain at Catholic Memorial Home in Fall River from 1990 until his retirement on June 28, 2000.
His Mass of Christian Burial will take place on Tuesday, January 7, 2025, at 11:00AM in the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption, Spring St., Fall River. Burial will follow in St. Patrick’s Cemetery, Fall River. Visiting hours will be held on Monday, January 6, 2025 from 2:00 to 4:00PM in the Cathedral. For directions or to place an online tribute, please visit www.waring-sullivan.com
