Mary Lynn Staley remembers Father Robert Schwartz’s homilies, his founding a high school in Ghana, Africa, more than 10 years ago while he was pastor of her parish, Our Lady of Grace in Edina, and his concern for people’s faith lives.
A priest of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis for 56 years, Father Walter Sochacki, died Feb. 8 at St. Therese Care Center in New Hope. He was 81.
After serving 17 years as a Benedictine at Mount Michael Abbey in Nebraska, Father Martin Beckman came to Minnesota and was a priest for 50 years in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. He died at a hospital in St. Louis Park Jan. 1 at the age of 93.
Sharing memories with the congregation moments before his late uncle’s funeral Mass began, Jacob Spehar said Father Jeffrey Huard’s death seemed to come early at age 68, but “I also know he left nothing behind.”
A 1964 newspaper article illustrates the qualities Father John Siebenaler brought to his priestly ministry in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. He died July 9 at the age of 88.