Wilbert Hegener , O.F.M.

Father Wilbert Hegener
Order of Friars Minor

Father Wilbert was born on September 8, 1909, in Perscheid Oberwesel, Germany, with brothers, Wilbert, Aloysius, Joseph, Fr. Mark Hegener, O.F.M., and a sister, Mary Rita Cotter.

He was invested on July 29, 1929 and ordained on June 24, 1936. He served as an army chaplain from 1943 to 1946 which has left him with many terrible memories of the soldiers left dead or wounded in combat.

Fr. Wilbert has kept busy with pastoral care and trying to be a Friar to the brothers in community. He has felt that the experience of being in a real brotherhood has been his most gratifying experience.

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