The Rev. Msgr. Leo A. Jaeger, pastor of Holy Ghost parish in Dubuque for the past 22 years, died Thursday, April 8, at 3:15 p.m. at Mercy Medical Center in Dubuque.

Funeral services for Msgr. Jaeger, were held at Holy Ghost on Tuesday, April 13 at 11:00 a.m. He was buried at Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Dubuque.

The Most Rev. James. J. Byrne, Archbishop of Dubuque, was the main concelebrant of the concelebrated Mass. The Rev. Msgr. Vincent Hingtgen, chaplain of Xavier Hospital in Dubuque preached the homily.

Msgr. Jaeger was a native of Dyersville where he was born on August 12, 1902. He attended Loras College and took his seminary training at the St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was ordained to the priesthood at St. Raphael's Cathedral in Dubuque on June 2, 1928 by the Most Rev. James J. Keane, Archbishop of Dubuque.

Msgr. Jaeger was an associate pastor at Springbrook after his ordination until 1930 when he was assigned to the Catholic University in Washington, D.C. to study Canon law. Upon completion of his graduate work he returned to Dubuque and served at Sacred Heart Parish until 1939 when he was named to the faculty of Loras College.

Msgr. Jaeger was named secretary to the Archbishop Rohman and Vice-Chancellor of the Archdiocese in 1944. He also served as Vice-Officialis of the marriage court as well as chaplain at Mt. St. Francis Motherhouse in Dubuque.

In April of 1950 he became pastor of St. John's in Waterloo and remained there until his transfer to Holy Ghost in Dubuque in April 1954.

While paster in Waterloo Msgr. Jaeger organized and formed the new parish of St. Nicholas in Evansdale.

He was names a Papal Chamberlain in December, 1946 and elevated to the rank of Domestic Prelate three years later. For a number of years Msgr. Jaeger was secretary-treasurer of St. Raphael's Priest Fund Society and was also a Pro-Synodal Judge of the marriage court.

For a time he served as the Defender of the Bond in the marriage court, and was head of the Legion of Decency for the Archdiocese of Dubuque. He served also as a co-director for lay retreats.

He is survived by one brother, Julius Jaeger of Dyersville.