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Kalamazoo Gazette
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
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Retired Kalamazoo County Probate Judge James S. Casey, whose innovative programs on behalf of children, the elderly and the mentally ill had statewide significance, died of pneumonia Tuesday at University of Chicago Hospital, where he was undergoing treatment for leukemia. He was 72.
Casey, who served as a probate judge for 20 years -- from 1976 to 1996 -- was a compassionate person, both on and off the bench, said local attorney Harry Contos Jr., who graduated from law school with Casey at the University of Notre Dame in 1961. ...
In 2002, the Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo appointed Casey to chair the Diocesan Review Board, which was established to investigate charges of clergy sexual abuse.
Posted by kshaw at December 22, 2005 07:29 AM