- ST.
NORBERT ABBEY
- DE
PERE, WISCONSIN, U.S.A.
- Rev.
James M. Johnson, O. Praem.
- b. Tuesday, Mar. 6,
1917 –d. Wednesday, Apr. 29, 1992
Our brother
James Johnson was born in Sugar Bush,
Wisconsin
in 1917. After his sophomore year at
the college, he joined the Order in 1937. In
1939, he was assigned to the faculty of Southeast Catholic with summers spent at
Camp
Tivoli. Jim joined the faculty of
Central Catholic in 1946, became the chaplain to the Green Bay area Civic Air
Patrol in 1950, and full-time assistant at St. Willibrord in
Green Bay
in 1955.
In 1957, Jim
founded St. Norbert Parish, in
Paoli,
Pennsylvania, near what was to become Daylesford Abbey.
In 1969, he became the pastor of St. Margaret in Cut Bank, Montana
and from 1980 until 1982, was the pastor of St. Boniface in DePere.
During the years 1982 until 1985, he filled in for pastors who wanted to
participate in clergy renewal programs in Marquette,
Michigan,
Green Bay
,
Helena
and
Great Falls,
Montana.
Jim
died suddenly on Wednesday, April 29, 1992 from the effects of leukemia, just 2 months short of
his 50th anniversary of ordination, in 1992 at the age of 75.
