Father Burnett
                                            
  Father James Burnett, pastor of St. Mary's parish, Dodgeville, and St.  
  Mary's, Wapello, is joining the Chaplain service of the U. S. Air Force 
  next January.
  
  Ordained in January 1974, by Bishop  Gerald O'Keefe, Fr. Burnett spent  
  several years  of his  priesthood  as a  hospital  chaplain. He  was a  
  substitute chaplain at University Hospital in Iowa City for three months 
  in 1976, then spent a year in the clinical pastoral education program at 
  Mercy Hospital in Des Moines.
  
  He was a chaplain at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City from 1977 to 1981, when 
  he was named pastor for Dodgeville and Wapello.
  
  Fr. Burnett, who is 39 years old, also served as associate pastor at St. 
  Paul parish in Burlington from 1974 to 1976.
  
  He grew up in Lost Nation and attended Divine Word Seminary College at  
  Epsworth, Ia., and the Pope John XXII National Seminary in Weston, Mass.
  
  His entry into the chaplain corps brings to four the number of Davenport 
  diocesan priests in military service. The  others are Fr. Mark Spring,  
  Air Force since February of this year,  Fr. Robert Spiegel, Army since 
  1974, and Father John Durkin who has  been a chaplain in the Air Force  
  since 1948.
  
  1984
  Son of Louis and Renolda McDermott Burnett.
  
  Publication unknown
  Retyped 1994 by Lyman Morrison