Father Michael J. Sheridan, 75

Father Michael J. Sheridan, 75, died Tuesday, Jan.16 at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston.
Father Sheridan was born on Nov. 18, 1948 in Syracuse, N.Y., one of fourteen children to William C. and Catherine (Purcell) Sheridan.
After graduating from St. John’s Academy in Syracuse, Father Sheridan attended Wadhams Hall Seminary College, Ogdensburg, New York and Holy Apostles Seminary in Cromwell, Connecticut. He graduated from St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore in 1975.
Father Sheridan was ordained a priest by Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan on April 25, 1975 in St. Paul Cathedral.  In the 1970s and 1980s, he served in the following parishes: St. Pius X, Leicester; St. Bernard, Worcester; Holy Family of Nazareth, Leominster; St. Luke, Westborough; St. Peter, Northbridge; St. Mary, Southbridge, and St. Louis, Webster; and St. Mary, Uxbridge. 
He also ministered in the Diocese of Portland, Maine as a state prison chaplain at the Maine State Prison in Thomaston before becoming a pastor for the Passamaquoddy Native American Reservation in Indian Township, Maine. He served several years as pastor of Holy Name Parish in Machias, Maine, before returning to Massachusetts. He then joined the parish staff at St. Anne Parish, Southborough.  He was pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Dudley before retiring in 2018. 
He leaves his siblings, Marie Feiman, Anne Yager, and Daniel Sheridan, as well as brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, and many nieces and nephews.  He was predeceased by his brothers Donald, William, Phillip, Patrick and Martin, and his sisters Lenore Sheridan, Eileen Whitham, Catherine Chanley, Margaret DeCerce and Mary Elizabeth Sheridan.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered Tuesday, January 23, at 11 a.m. at Blessed Sacrament Church, 555 Pleasant St., Worcester.  Bishop McManus will preside. Burial will be at St. John’s Cemetery, Worcester.
In lieu of flowers, the Sheridan family suggests donations to St. Aloysius Church, P.O. Box 542, Gilbertville, MA 01031-0542.