 Fr. Robert William Feehan, OP
William Feehan was born in San Francisco in 1899 and baptized in Sacred Heart Church in
the year 1900. He went through high school and college in San Jose and Santa Clara
and went to Saint Patrick's Seminary for a little while. Before he entered he was in
banking. He did most of his formation in the Eastern Dominican Province at Saint
Joseph in Somerset, Ohio, Saint Rose in Kentucky, and River Forest in Illinois. From
there he went to the Angelicum in Rome, and finished off his studies in Benicia,
California. After ordination he stayed in Benicia until 1931 when he went to St.
Dominic's in San Francisco. He was always in parishes from Antioch, California to
Portland, Oregon. While in Portland, he connected with the youth and played baseball
and skied. He spent most of his life at Pittsburg, California and Vallejo,
California. His funeral was so large that they had to have two funeral masses for
him. May God reward him for his life of ministry in service of God's people. |
