Fr. Vincent Wavada (1922-1990)

Father Vincent Wavada died July 6, 1990.

The nephew of Father Norbert Wavada, O.S.B., Father Vincent, after a few years of teaching economics at St. Benedict’s College, spent the majority of his years as a member of our community parish ministry, the bulk of that in Nemaha County. He was much loved for his being “down to earth”. He was an avid hunter and fisherman and was known to keep at least on Brittany Spaniel around. Blue Gills were known to have fled for cover when he approached a farm pond.

Father Vincent was an avid reader. He belonged to the History Book Club. He read what he bought, and many of those books are now in the Benedictine College Library. On a table in the front room of the rectory at St. Bede, Kelly, were small, red-bound volumes of the works of Charles Dickens. He is reputed to have read The Pickwick Papers at least ten times. The people at St. Bede still speak fondly of him.