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Article: Casper the Ghost Has Friend in Priest
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 21, 1995
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N EW YORK - It's not true. Casper "the friendly ghost" does have
friends - and one even has heavenly connections.
Monsignor Joseph Funaro, a rotund priest with a rusty, red beard
and smiling eyes, knows the animated ghost very well.
He brought Casper, the long-suffering, friendless ghost, to life
for millions of television fans in the 1960s.
And Casper, in turn, put Father Funaro through seminary school.
Without him, Funaro says seminary school would not have been
possible, and without seminary school, well, his life could have been
different.
"I probably would be living in California, working for
Hanna-Barbera," Funaro, 58, says with a laugh.
Instead, he is sitting behind a ...