Dear
brothers:
Let us pray in thanksgiving
for the life of our brother Fr. Howard E.
Kalb, S.J., who was called to eternal life on
April 4, 2012. Howie died in the Creighton
University Jesuit Community in Omaha, NE. He
was eighty-eight years old, a Jesuit for
seventy years, and a priest for fifty-seven
years.
Born in Dubuque, IA on July
27, 1923, Howie attended grade school in
Dubuque and Campion Jesuit High School in
Prairie du Chien, WI. He entered the Society
at St. Stanislaus Seminary, Florissant, MO on
August 17, 1941. He had the usual Jesuit
course of studies at St. Stanislaus, St. Louis
University, and St. Mary's College. Howie was
ordained on June 16, 1954, made tertianship in
1955-1956, and pronounced his final vows on
February 2, 1959.
Howie's long years of
service to God's people were devoted to
teaching, parish work, and retreat ministry.
He taught math at Campion (where he also did
regency and later served as Rector/President)
and at Marquette High. He served as Pastor at
Ss. Peter and Paul in Mankato, MN and at St.
John's in Omaha, NE, and he ministered as a
retreat director at the Jesuit Retreat House
in Lake Elmo, MN and the Creighton University
Retreat Center in Griswold, IA. Howie also
served as Director of the Jesuit Seminary
Guild in Milwaukee and minister of the
Creighton University Jesuit Community. For
the last eight years of his life Howie resided
in the Creighton University Jesuit Community.
Until very recently he continued to give
several weekend retreats a year, and until he
died he served as chaplain to the sisters at
Mercy Villa in Omaha.
Howie was a large, friendly
man who drew people to himself. He was a
happy, hard-working priest whose ministry was
very fruitful. His loyalties were strong and
steady over seventy years of Jesuit life in a
changing Church and a changing world. At the
end he was ready to enter into the joy of the
Lord he served so faithfully.
Arrangements are as
follows:
Visitation and
Funeral – St. John’s Church, Omaha, NE
Tuesday, April 10,
2012
Visitation: 9:00
AM
Funeral Mass: 10:00 AM
Burial at Holy Sepulcher
Cemetery, Omaha
Messages of condolence may
be sent to one of the following:
Rev. Robert F.
O'Connor, S.J., Rector
Creighton
University Jesuit Community
2500 California
Plaza
Omaha, NE
68178-0522
Sr. Marie
Therese Kalb (sister)
Bethany Prayer
Center
1001 Davis
Street
Dubuque, IA
52001
John Kalb
(brother)
1885 Marion
Street
Dubuque, IA
52001
Richard Kalb
(brother)
165 South
Grandview Avenue
Dubuque, IA
52003
Thomas J. Kalb
(brother)
13420 106th
Street
Young America,
MN 55397
As we remember with
gratitude all that God has done through
Howie's life of service to God and God's
people, we are reminded of our privilege and
obligation to offer Masses and prayers for his
eternal repose.
Sincerely in Christ,
Patrick J. Burns, S.J.
Socius