A memorial requiem Mass will be celebrated Wednesday at Christ Church Cathedral for The Rev. Sanford Chapdu Lindsey, former rector at St. Luke's Parish in Sayler Park, who died of coronary artery disease Sept. 19 at the Deupree Community in Oakley.

        He was 88.

        Father Lindsey was an “inveterate world traveler, and throughout his life an exceptional teacher, writer, artist and musician,” said a friend, Robert Brubaker of Columbus. He “epitomized Christian love.”

        In addition to assignments as rector for several parishes in Ohio and Florida, Father Lindsey served as chaplain at Phillips Andover Academy in Massachusetts in 1950, assistant to the dean and museum curator of the Washington National Cathedral from 1964 to 1971 and curator of the Mary Johnston Museum in London, Ohio, from 1973 to 1975.

        Born in Cincinnati in 1914, “Sandy,” as he was known then, left Woodward High School when he was 15 to help support his mother and siblings during the Great Depression.

        He suffered significant hearing loss while serving with the Army Air Corps during World War II. After his discharge in 1945, the rector of Christ Church Parish in Cincinnati drove him to Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, to take an admission test even though he possessed no high school diploma.

        Father Lindsey passed the test and was admitted to Kenyon. He received a bachelor's degree in 1948.

        He went on to graduate from the Episcopal Theological School at Harvard in 1950 and received a master's degree from

        Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., in 1964.

        Ordained in 1951, he was “peerless in the pulpit,” Mr. Brubaker said. Although hard of hearing, Father Lindsey could converse with parishioners and “ministered to parishes in southern Ohio and central Florida for more than five decades with great distinction and compassion.”

        He was rector at St. Luke's from 1987 until 1995.

        Survivors include nieces and nephews.

        The Mass is 10 a.m. Wednesday at Christ Church Cathedral, 318 Sycamore St., downtown. Interment follows at New Richmond Cemetery.

        E-mail rbillman@enquirer.com

Abduction ordeal rattles councilman
Excerpts of 911 transcript
City vs. suburbs? Friction heats up
United Way far from goal
Pope rejects sex abuse policy
GUTIERREZ: Build as we say, not do
Archbishop supports Metro tax hike
Judge: Charter school must notify parents
Obituary: Rev. Sanford C. Lindsey, served Sayler Park
Prosecutors must say why juror was excluded
Silverton tries again for tax approval
Teachers adapt curriculum to study Iraq
Two men rob Franklin Savings
Cell phone rings up 4 arrests
Congrats
Dem: State AG wrong to stump for Stratton
Faith Matters: Gaither celebrates unity
Judge allows leaflets to be distributed
Neighborhoods: Once-a-year special events
Sewer board to draft bylaws
Kentucky Digest
Nursing home review unfinished
Chemical-spray robber strikes 3 stores
Toledo Zoo to return costly koala
W. Nile donated-blood tie checked