The funeral mass for former Springfield Mayor Bill Morrisette, will be held at 12:15 p.m. today, April 28, at St. Alice Catholic Church, 1520 E. St., Springfield. A rosary service precedes at 11:15 a.m.

The funeral mass will be live-streamed at https://www.youtube.com/live/cWurZyLToEY.

The former teacher, mayor and state legislator, who championed regional cooperation with Eugene and the rest of Lane County, opposed anti-gay ordinances and helped shepherd his city through the 1998 shooting at Thurston High School, died April 15 of natural causes at The Cottages Senior Living, a memory care facility in Portland.

He was 93.

The family ask that memorial contributions be made to Habitat for Humanity of Central Lane, 1210 Oak Patch Road, Eugene, 97402.