- ST.
NORBERT ABBEY
- DE
PERE, WISCONSIN, U.S.A.
- Rev.
Walter A. Paiement, O. Praem.
- b. Wednesday,
Oct. 14,
1896 – d. Wednesday, Mar. 12, 1952
Our brother
Walter Paiement (PAY-mont) was born in Champion, Michigan
in 1896. He joined the Order in
1916 and was solemnly professed in 1921.
Walter
was the athletic director at the college from 1921 to 1924.
From 1927 until 1932, he spent his summers at the lodge at Sayner, where
he enjoyed fishing and hunting in the fall.
In 1928, after
studying at the Preacher’s Institute in Washington, D.C., he preached missions until 1933. He then became the pastor of St. Louis
in Dykesville.
Becoming
ill in 1947, Walter spent a short time recuperating at the
Madison
novitiate and then in Marinette, for
an extended period of convalescence. He
died on
Wednesday, March 12, 1952, at the age of 55.
