- NORBERTIJNENABDIJ
BERNE
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- OUR
LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION ABBEY
- DAYLESFORD,
PENNSYLVANIA, U.S.A.
- Rev.
Theodore J. Nabuurs, O. Praem.
- b. Friday, Oct. 26,
1928 – d. Sunday, May 12, 1974
Our
brother Theodore Nabuurs was born in Holland
in 1928, graduating from the gymnasium (gim-NAZ-ee-um) at Heeswijk.
He was vested at Berne
in 1949, professed in 1951, and ordained there in 1955.
In
1958, he immigrated to the United States
where he joined Daylesford and became cantor and a professor at the Daylesford Novitiate.
He
subsequently received his B.A. from St.
Norbert
College
and taught German and religion at Bishop
Neumann
High School
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Ted
was also a much-loved social worker in South Philadelphia and after his death on
Sunday, May
12, 1974, the Family
Center
attached to St. Gabriel Parish was named in his honor.
Ted died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 46 and is buried at
Daylesford Abbey.
