Fr. Frank Joseph Bolling dies at age 94

By The Catholic Week
Fr. Frank Joseph Bolling, who had been a priest for 20 years, died Jan. 1, 2025, at the age of 94.
Fr. Bolling was born on March 1, 1930, in Mobile. He attended grammar school in Meridian, Miss., before the family moved to Valdosta, Ga., and then to Birmingham, during his high school years.
After two years at St. Bernard’s College in Cullman, Fr. Bolling entered St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore in 1950 with the intention of discerning a vocation to priesthood.
His father’s death in 1954, led to him withdrawing from seminary studies to support his mother and sister. He joined the U.S. Navy Reserves and worked as a tax officer supervisor for the City of Mobile for 25 years.
In 2002, after retirement from his civil profession, Fr. Bolling was accepted as a seminarian for the Archdiocese of Mobile and resumed discernment toward priesthood. 
He was ordained on May 29, 2004, at the Cathedral-Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Mobile. His first assignment was as chaplain to the Sacred Heart Residence of the Little Sisters of the Poor, where he served until 2008. As his health allowed, Fr. Bolling filled in for pastors by offering Masses and ministry at parishes throughout the archdiocese.
Mass of Christian Burial was scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 7 at the chapel of the Little Sisters of the Poor Sacred Heart Residence. Interment was to follow in the priests' section of the Catholic Cemetery of Mobile.