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From: "Beth Rykhus" <>
Subject: Re: [PACAMBRI] Rt. Rev. Denis O. Strittmatter 1896 - 1971
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:33:11 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
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This makes them have two sons named Dennis. Dennis A. Strittmatter, b.
October 30, 1890 m. Elizabeth Margaret Kline in 1913.

Cambria County Marriage Index
25-3 1913 STRITTMATTER, Denis A. KLINE, Elizabeth M. 45-621

Monday, September 24, 1917, Daily Tribune, Johnstown, Cambria, PA:
DENNIS STRITTMATTER DIED AT THE HOSPITAL: Well-Known Hastings Man Expired
Following Operation; Funeral held Today HASTINGS, Sept. 24. – Dennis
Strittmatter, aged 27 years, of this place, died on Saturday at the Spangler
Hospital, following an operation performed Thursday. Death was due to bowel
trouble. The deceased was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Strittmatter, of this
place. Mr. Strittmatter is survived by his parents, his widow, Mrs.
Elizabeth Kline Strittmatter, and two children - Bernard and Louise
Strittmatter. His [He] is also survived by two sisters and four brothers,
two of whom are priests – Father Dennis and Father Henry, at St, Vincent’s
Monastery, at Beatty, Pa. Funeral services were held at 10 o’clock this
morning from St. Bernard’s Catholic Church. Internment was made in the
church cemetery.

Rev. Dennis Strittmatter was b. August 18, 1896. Why they named two sons
the same is beyond me.

Beth


-------Original Message-------

From: Mary Hoffherr
Date: 4/26/2010 11:35 20
To: 'Jack O'Connor'; 'PA List'
Subject: Re: [PACAMBRI] Rt. Rev. Denis O. Strittmatter 1896 - 1971

I am a little confused. I was told Dennis October 1890 - September 22, 1917
St. Bernard Catholic Cemetery, Hastings, Elder Twp, Cambria Co, PA married
to Elizabeth M. Kline

Could this be Dennis's brother Orner V. August 1896???



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Monday, March 29, 1971, Latrobe Bulletin, page 1, Latrobe, Westmoreland, PA

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St. Vincent Archabbot Denis Strittmatter Dies

The Rt. Rev. Denis O. Strittmatter, O.S.B., D.D., sixth Archabbot of St.
Vincent Archabbey, died Saturday n the Archabbey.

Friends will be received at the Archabbey Parlor on Monday and Tuesday from
3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. and on Wednesday from 3 to 9 p.m. in the Archabbey
Basilica. Wake service will be held at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Basilica
with Concelebrated Mass of the Resurrection offered at 1:30 p.m. Thursday.

Burial will follow in the St. Vincent Cemetery.

Born in Hastings, Pa., Aug. 18, 1896, Archabbot Strittmatter received his
early education in St. Bernard's School, Hastings, and St. Vincent
Preparatory School. He received both a bachelor of arts and master of arts
degree from St. Vincent College.

Archabbot Strittmatter entered the Benedictine Order at St. Vincent
Archabbey in 1916 and was solemnly professed as a Benedictine monk July 1,
1920. He was ordained to the priesthood in the Archabbey church by the late
Bishop Hugh C. Boyle of Pittsburgh June 24, 1923. For the next three years
he served congregations in Youngstown, Ligonier and Wilpen, and in 1927 was
made assistant pastor of St. Mary's Church, Pittsburgh. A year later he was
transferred to Sacred Heart Church, Jeannette.

Military School Director

In 1929 when the Benedictine monks of St. Vincent Archabbey took over the
administration of St. Emma's Military School (a school for Negro boys in
Rock Castle, Va.), Archabbot Strittmatter was appointed its assistant
director. He held this post until 1944 when he became director of the
military school. In 1947 he returned to St. Vincent to become (See DIES,
Page 7) maintenance director.

On Sept. 8, 1949, he was elected Coadjutor Archabbot of St. Vincent
Archabbey, succeeding retired Rt. Rev. Alfred Koch, O.S.B., S.T.D. His
election was confirmed by the Holy See September 14 of the same year. The
Most Rev. John F. Dearden, Pittsburgh, conferred the Abbatial Blessing upon
the new archabbot at services in the St. Vincent Archabbey Church Nov. 25,
1949. At this time, St. Vincent College bestowed on him the honorary degree
of doctor of divinity.

Archabbot Strittmatter was chairman of the board of directors of St. Vincent
College from 1949 to 1963. He served the college as president from 1949 to
1955, and was chancellor from 1955 to 1963.

In 1953, he was elected president of the American Cassinese Congregation of
the Benedictine Order for a six-year term and was re-elected in 1959. As
superior of the Benedictine monastery of St. Vincent, Archabbot Strittmatter
was instrumental in founding the American Benedictine Academy, and as
president of the American Cassinese Congregation he represented the 1,800
monks of that congregation at Vatican Council II from 1962 to 1965. From
1953 to 1963 he served as one of the four advisors to the Abbot Primate of
the Benedictine Order.

In June of 1963 he retired as archabbot of St. Vincent, relinquishing
jurisdiction of the monastery to the newly elected Coadjutor Archabbot
Rembert G. Weakland, O.S.B.

During Archabbot Strittmatter's administration, an extensive building
program was inaugurated at St. Vincent. Three dormitories, a classroom
building, an activities building housing a gymnasium and an auditorium, a
library, and a student center were constructed or begun before his
retirement in 1963. Shortly before relinquishing his post as administrator,
Archabbot Strittmatter began formulation of plans for the reconstruction of
monastic and college building destroyed in a multi-million dollar fire which
struck the Benedictine Community earlier that year.

Archabbot Strittmatter is the son of the late Paul A. and Sophie (Hoover)
Strittmatter. He is survived by one brother, Otto T., Latrobe, and one
sister, Mrs. Casper (Mary) Overberger, Hasting.





Tuesday, March 30, 1971, Latrobe Bulletin, Latrobe, Westmoreland, PA

Rt. Rev. Denis O. Strittmatter

The Rt. Rev. Denis O. Strittmatter, O.S.B., D.D., sixth archabbot of St.
Vincent Archabbey, died Saturday at the Archabbey.

Born Aug. 18, 1896, he was the son the late Paul A. and Sophie (Hoover)
Strittmatter of Hastings.

He is survived by one brother, Otto T., Latrobe, and a sister, Mrs. Casper
(Mary) Overberger, Hastings.

Friends are being received at the Archabbey Parlor from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9
p.m. Tuesday and from 3 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in the Archabbey Basilica.

Wake service will be held at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Basilica with
Concelebrated Mass of Resurrection offered at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Burial will follow in St. Vincent Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, friends are asked to make contributions to the
Strittmatter Scholarship Fund in care of St. Vincent College




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