In Our Prayers

Please remember in your prayers Al Tischler, husband of Kathy Tischler, Executive Assistant in Development and Alumni Relations. He died Oct. 17. 

Please remember in your prayers Matthew Chamberlain, a graduate student in the Opus College of Business. He died Oct. 8.

Please remember in your prayers Adolf Scheurer, father of Erika Scheurer, English associate professor and director of Writing Across the Curriculum. He died on Monday.

Harry Joseph Flynn, 86, former chair of the Board of Trustees and archbishop emeritus of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, died Sunday, Sept. 22.

Please remember in your prayers Ronald Tschida, father of St. Thomas softball coach John Tschida. 

Please remember in your prayers Javier Sanmiguel, who died Sept. 9. Javier was husband to Kayla (Kowitz) Sanmiguel '08, a former staff member at The Seminaries of Saint Paul. 

Please remember in your prayers Elizabeth Sardon, mother-in-law to employee Kelly Sardon-Garrity of the Center for Common Good. She died Aug. 26 after a lengthy fight against cancer and Lupus. 

Please keep in your prayers the family of Jim Beatty, father of Rita Lamatsch and father-in-law of ITS Audio Visual Engineer, Dan Lamatsch. He passed away Aug. 16 peacefully after a courageous battle with Alzeihmer’s disease.

Please remember in your prayers Dennis Smith, father of Development staff member Nancy Swanholm. 

Please remember in your prayers Janelle Walsh,mother of Anne Walsh ’19 and Emily Walsh, a current student at St. Thomas.

Please remember in your prayers Patricia Koceja, mother of English Associate Professor Matthew Batt. She passed away on June 6.

Please remember in your prayers Blair John '16 MA. An international student from the Bahamas, John graduated in 2016 from the MA Program in the Graduate School of Professional Psychology.

Please remember in your prayers Irene Hanson, who passed away on June 4. She was the mother of Luann Dummer Center for Women contributor/historian Susan Clayton '84, '02, and ITS employee David Hanson '86, '03. 

Please remember in your prayers John B. DeVinck, father of Kristine DeVinck, Opus College of Business Director and Faculty member.

Please remember in your prayers Tom Madison, former Board of Trustees member from 1982-1996 and 2011-2018. He died April 10.

Please remember in your prayers Ann Sovell, sister-in-law of Kim Ragan Sovell, OCB Marketing Department faculty, and aunt of Miles Sovell ('05 & '18), Gaby Moon Sarcia ('04), Ragan Sovell ('16) and Austin Sovell ('17).