- ST.
NORBERT ABBEY
- DE
PERE, WISCONSIN, U.S.A.
- Rev.
Thomas G. Fox, O. Praem.
- b. Wednesday,
Aug. 14,
1907 – d. Thursday, Apr. 5, 1973
Our brother
Thomas Fox was born in Askeaton,
Wisconsin
in 1907. Working for two years after his graduation from
St.
Norbert High, he joined the Order in 1930.
Tom began his teaching career at St. Norbert High in 1932, followed by
joining the faculty at Southeast in 1934. He
was solemnly professed in 1935.
Tom
was appointed athletic director of the college in 1936, and became a chaplain in
the Army during World War II. After
a year at Central Catholic in 1946, he returned to the college, where Abbot
Killeen appointed him food procurator for the Order and college.
In 1952, he became the chaplain at the reformatory.
A
bout with TB placed him in the Hickory Grove Sanatorium in DePere in 1957, with
surgery and recuperation at Madison General in 1959.
Tom also served as chaplain at
St. Joseph
Academy
and Our Lady of Charity Convent before becoming pastor of
St. Joseph
in Oneida
in 1962. He died on
Thursday, April 5,
1973 at the age of 65.
Order of
Prémontré