Fr. Norbert Wavada (1898-1966)

Father Norbert, an uncle of Father Vincent Wavada, made his first profession of vows July 2, 1921, and was ordained in 1927.

After ordination he served on the faculty of St. Benedict’s High School and for a time was the Principal.  He had earned a master’s degree in education at the University of Colorado and later taught at St. Benedict’s College. 

At the time of his death he was chaplain at St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital, Sabetha, Kan.  He served the people at St. Ann’s, Hiawatha, Kan., on two different occasions for 23 years.  The writer of this Necrology remembers his first ever assignment as a priest, simplex, as a helper to Father Norbert in Hiawatha in 1957 and being treated to an A & W root beer on Saturday night.  Out by train to Hiawatha on Saturday from Atchison and home Sunday by bus!

Father Norbert Wavada passed away December 11, 1966.