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November 18, 2020 - April 25, 2011

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Monsignor Andrew Meister, 90, of Marianna, died Monday, April 25, 2011 at an Omaha Hospital. Funeral Mass will be 10:30 Friday at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in West Point with Archbishop of Omaha, his Excellency George Lucas in attendance, Reverend Gerald Gonderinger as Homilist. Burial in St. Michael’s Cemetery. Vigil Services with Knights of Columbus Rosary will be 7:00 pm. Thursday at St. Mary’s Catholic Church. Memorials may be made to Kenrick Seminary. Visitation will be 9:00 am. until 4:00 pm. Thursday at Stokely Funeral Home and continue from 5:00 pm. until 7:00 pm. Thursday at St. Mary’s Church in West Point, Visitation on Friday will be 9:00 am. until 10:00 am. at Stokely Funeral Home. Andrew H. Meister was born November 18, 1920 at West Point to Henry and Kunigunda Schmuecker Meister. He received his education at St. Boniface Catholic School, Monterey, graduated from Conception High School, Conception MO, then St. Louis Preparatory Seminary in and studied Sacred Theology at Kenrick Seminary, St. Louis, MO. Father Meister was ordained September 23, 1944 at St. Cecilia’s Cathedral in Omaha. Father Meister served as Asst. Pastor at Blessed Sacrament, Omaha, Pastor St. Paul’s, Plainview, and St. Ignatius, Brunswick, founding Pastor of St. Joan of Arc, Omaha, and PastorSt. Augustine’s, Schuyler. In 1992, he retired to Marianna, a retirement village for priests at Cedar Bluffs that he helped found. Father also worked in ministry to Hispanic Catholics in the Schuyler, Columbus area, and served as State Chaplain of Knights of Columbus of Nebraska Jurisdiction in his retirement. Father Meister appreciated playing golf, and enjoyed all things outdoors. He recently took up photography. He will be remembered as a prayerful man with a great devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Survivors include sisters Hermines Ulrich of Howells, Doreen Meister of West Point, Veronica (Gene) Emanuel of North Bend and Henrietta (Ike) Pane of Omaha, brother Melvin (Delores) Meister of West Point, nieces and nephews. He is preceded in death by brother and sister in law, Edward and Catherine Meister, brother in law Frank Ulrich, and infant sister Bernadine.