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- SOURCE: APPLETON POST CRESCENT OBITUARY Tuesday, November 9, 1948
REV. SCHUELLER FUNERAL RITES IN GREEN BAY
Native Of Appleton Dies After 37 Years In Catholic Priesthood
Funeral services for the Rev. A.J. Schueller, 60, a native of Appleton who died Monday afternoon at the rectory of St. Joseph Church, Green Bay, of which he was pastor, will be held in his parish church at 10 o'clock Thursday morning.
Bishop Stanislaus Bona of the diocese of Green Bay will be the celebrant at the mass. The Rev. Harry Schueller, pastor of St. Sebastien Church at Isaar and brother of the deceased priest will be arch priest. Deacons of honor will be the Rev. Father Delbert Basche of St. Francis Church, De pere, and Dennis Burke, O. Pram, of St. Willibrord Church, Green Bay.
The Rev. Leonard Woelfel, assistant to Father Schueller, will be deacon of the mass, and two former assistants, the Rev. Father William Hemauer of Norman and Michael Bablitch of Askeaton, will be sub-deacon and master of ceremonies respectively. Pallbearers will be six pastors of nearby churches.
Burial will take place in the family lot in St. Joseph Cemetery, Appleton. The Rev. Joseph P. Glueckstein, pastor at St. Margaret Mary Church, Neenah, will give the absolution.
Father Schueller, eldest son of the late Professor and Mrs. Engelbert Schueller, was born in Appleton June 24, 1884. After finishing St. Joseph parish school here he took his preparatory course for the priesthood at St. Lawrence college at Mr. Calvary. This was followed by a course in philosophy at Prairie du Chien and he completed his education at the world famous seminary at Innsbruch in the Austrian Tyrol. Prior to his ordination at Innsbruch on July 26, 1911, he represented the Green Bay diocese at the Eucharistic congress at Mainz, Germany.His first mass was sung in St. Mary Church, Appleton, with his father as organist for the cermony. The mass was celebrated on the fiftieth anniversary of the congregation and the twenty-fifth jubilee of its then pastor, the late Rev. Walter J. Fitzmaurice.The next three years he was assistant to Father Fitzmaurice, and then he was assistant at St. Mary Church in Kaukauna for a year until he became pastor of St. Francis Church at Gresham in 1915. He remained there until 1922 when he was transferred to St. Anne's Church at Francis Creek where he built a new school and a residence for the teaching sisters.The next year he assisted at the first mass of his brother, the Rev. Harry Schueller at St. Joseph Church in Appleton, and in became pastor of St. Joseph Church in Green Bay, remaining ther until his death.
Father Schueller has been an invalid for the last eight or nine years but was able to carry on his work much of the time from a wheel chair. During his pastorate a new church, school and sisters residence were built.
Survivors are two brothers, Lawrence, Kaukauna, and the Rev. Harry Schueller, St. Sebastian, Isaar; and four sisters, Adelaide, Louise, Mary and Celia, all of Appleton.
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1888 - 1948 (60 years)
