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Rev Germain Schwab

Birth
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Death
31 May 1969 (aged 52)
Flora, Clay County, Illinois, USA
Burial
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Name: Schwab, Germain O.F.M.
Date: June 3, 1969
Source: Plain Dealer; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #154.
Notes: The Rev. Germain Schwab, O.F.M., 52, assistant superior of the Franciscan Community here from 1964 to 1966 and director of pastoral formation for the same period, died Saturday in a highway accident near Flora, Ill. The Rev. Isadore Langheim, driver of the car in which Father Schwab was a passenger, was chaplain of the Cuyahoga County Nursing Home and the former Cleveland Psychiatric Institute and Hospital from 1963 to 1967. Father Langheim is in serious condition in the Clay County (Ill.) Hospital. Father Schwab has been provincial of the St. Louis-Chicago Franciscan Province since 1966. He was born in Chicago and ordained a priest at Teutopolis, Ill., in 1942. He received his doctorate of sacred theology in Austria. He was a founder of the Catholic Homelectic Society. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Wilhelmine Schwab, brothers and sister. Services will be at St. Augustine Catholic Church, Chicago, at 10 a.m. tomorrow.
Name: Schwab, Germain O.F.M.
Date: June 3, 1969
Source: Plain Dealer; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #154.
Notes: The Rev. Germain Schwab, O.F.M., 52, assistant superior of the Franciscan Community here from 1964 to 1966 and director of pastoral formation for the same period, died Saturday in a highway accident near Flora, Ill. The Rev. Isadore Langheim, driver of the car in which Father Schwab was a passenger, was chaplain of the Cuyahoga County Nursing Home and the former Cleveland Psychiatric Institute and Hospital from 1963 to 1967. Father Langheim is in serious condition in the Clay County (Ill.) Hospital. Father Schwab has been provincial of the St. Louis-Chicago Franciscan Province since 1966. He was born in Chicago and ordained a priest at Teutopolis, Ill., in 1942. He received his doctorate of sacred theology in Austria. He was a founder of the Catholic Homelectic Society. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Wilhelmine Schwab, brothers and sister. Services will be at St. Augustine Catholic Church, Chicago, at 10 a.m. tomorrow.


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