Deacon Robert G.H. Lippert, 76, died Aug. 30 at his residence in Beckemeyer.

If someone had told Father Christian Reuter when he was a child that he would someday be ministering to people in prisons, he would never have believed it, he said.

St. Mary School in Centralia and St. John the Baptist in Smithon will welcome new principals as they begin the school year in coming weeks.