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Father Neil Seidl - Marshfield News Herald - R Pritzl, May 1999
The Society of the Divine Savior announce the death due to cancer and other related illness of Father Neil Seidl, S.D.S.
on May 12, 1999 at the Sutter Hospital in Roseville, Calif. Father Neil was 70 years old, professed 50 years and ordained
a priest in the Society of the Divine Savior for 44 years. The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated May 18 at 10 a.m. by
Bishop William Weigand, Bishop of Sacramento. Visitation was held at St Anne's Home for the Elderly in Milwaukee at 9 a.m.
on May 19 followed by the Mass of Christian Burial. Burial was at 3 p.m. May 19 at the Savatorian Cemetery at St Nazianz.
In lieu of flowers, donations to the Divine Savior Memorial Gardens or Stations of The Cross are suggested. The donations
may be sent to Divine Savior Parish, Building Committee, at 9079 Greenback Lane, Orangevale, Ca., 95622. Fr. Neil, born William
Joseph on Jan. 29, 1929, in Hewitt, was one of seven children of Isadore Lawrence Seidl and Anna Katherine Reinert. He attended
St John's Grade School in Hewitt from 1934 to 1941 and St John's School in Marshfield and attended the Salvatorian Minor Seminary
where he completed his high school and two years of college. He made his first profession of vows on Sep. 8, 1948. From 1948
to 1954 Fr Neil attended the Catholic University of America where he completed his philosophical and theological studies.
He was ordained to the diaconate by Cardinal O'Boyle on Sep 30, 1953 at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in
Washington, DC. Fr Neil was ordained to the priesthood by the Reverend John M McNamara on June 5, 1954 at the National Shrine
of the Immaculate Conception and offered his first Mass of Thanksgiving at St John the Baptist Church in Marshfield on June
13, 1954. Fr Neil also pursued graduate studies at Glassboro State University in Glassboro, N.J. and Pennsylvania University
in Philadelphia. In 1966 Fr Neil began his doctoral studies at the University of Maryland and earned a Ph. D. in math education
in 1970. This degree prepared him for his years professor and department chairman at Dominican College of Racine from 1970
to 1974. In 1974 moved to the West Coast to assume the duties of principal of St Pius X Prep in Galt, Calif. He remained there
as director of the St Pius X facilities of the diocese for one year. At this time, Fr Neil became very involved in the Cursillo
and World Wide Marriage Encounter movements. After serving for several years as diocesan spiritual director for the Cursillo
Movement he became associate pastor at Holy Cross Parish in Bryte, Calif., from 1981 to 1985 and associate pastor of St Charles
Borromeo Parish in Sacramento from 1986 to 1987. In 1987, Fr Neil joined fellow Savatorian. Fr Bob Mariscek, S.D.S. to begin
a new Salvatorian parish in Orangevale, Calif. Which merited the name, Divine Savior Parish. In November, 1990, Fr Neil discovered
a tumor on his neck that was diagnosed as a low grade nodular lymphoma, a slow-growing cancer. Fr Neil continued his ministry
at Divine Savior Parish until shortly before his death. Fr Neil is survived by two sisters, Tessie Probst of South Milwaukee
and Mary Chrouser of Stratford. He was preceded in death by his parents, Isadore and Anna; two brothers, Paul and Herbert;
and two sisters, Barbara Seidl and Kathryn Saviage.
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