Fr. Ambrose Keating (1908-1990)

Father Ambrose Keating passed away July 9, 1990.

After serving as teacher and librarian for three years at Maur Hill High School after ordination, Father Ambrose began many years as a parish priest. He was very generous in this service and while at the former St. Benedict’s Parish, in Kansas City, Kan., served 29 years as Catholic Chaplain at the former Bethany Hospital nearby.

Father Ambrose was known for his phenomenal memory and was often tested by various confreres to validate its authenticity. It was authentic. When he was stationed at St. Benedict’s Parish in Kansas City, he would sometimes, armed with a shopping bag containing a change of clothes and gift for the Maur Hill Monks, he would take the train to Atchison, visit friends in Atchison, sleep at Maur Hill and return by rail the next day. In his last years, his sight was failing and yet he bore that inconvenience admirably.