- ST.
NORBERT ABBEY
- DE
PERE, WISCONSIN, U.S.A.
- Rev.
Francis B. McHugh, O. Praem.
- b. Thursday, Nov. 21,
1912 – d. Saturday, Sept. 5, 1998
Our
brother Francis McHugh was born in Philadelphia
in 1912. After attending St. John
Seminary in Little Rock
,
Arkansas
from 1930 until 1935, he came to the college and was vested that fall,
professing solemn vows in 1938.
Frank
taught at Southeast Catholic from 1937 to 1949 and moderated “The Rocket”,
the school paper. He returned to the
college faculty in ’49, edited the “Annals of St. Joseph
,” coordinated the alumni, was advisor to “Des Peres,” the college
yearbook, was advisor to the frosh class and moderated the Altar Servers’
Society.
1953
found Frank as assistant pastor in Essexville until 1962, when he became
assistant at St. Willibrord in Chicago. He was appointed pastor of Our
Lady of Ransom in
Hingham
, Montana
in 1966, then pastor of St. Willibrord in
Chicago
in 1969, and finally pastor of St. John’s
Essexville in 1971.
After
the 3rd day of celebration for the dedication of the abbey in 1959,
being an avowed scotch drinker and having spent many years in Chicago
, Francis was asked by baseball nut George Feider, how the White Sox were.
He replied, “If they were in a bottle last night, I drank ‘em!”
Frank
had retired to the college priory in 1975, but spent his final years at the
abbey where he died
on
Saturday, September 5, 1998, at the age of 85.
