- ST.
NORBERT ABBEY
- DE
PERE, WISCONSIN, U.S.A.
- R.D.
Eugene H. Berendsen, O. Praem.
- b. Sunday, Apr. 23,
1905 –d. Friday, Oct. 23, 1959
Our
brother Eugene Berendson was born in Green Bay
in 1905. After graduating from
St.
Norbert High and working for three years, he joined the Order in 1926 and was
solemnly professed in 1931.
Gene
was one in the original group that was sent to Philadelphia
in 1934 to staff Southeast Catholic. In
1935, he was appointed assistant at St. Willibrord in
Green Bay, in 1937, assistant at
St. John’s
in Essexville, and in 1938, assistant at Our Lady of Ransom, in Hingham,
Montana.
1939
found Gene back at Southeast until 1944, when he went to assist at St. Francis
in Manistique, Michigan. In 1951, Gene was appointed pastor
of St. Joseph
in Champion, where he remained until 1959, when he became ill.
After trying to recuperate at the abbey, he died on Friday, October 23,
1959 at the age of 54.
