Ed Rovinski
One of the names which has come up at council meetings in the last couple of months has been Ed Rovinski.  Ed has been on our sick list recently, and it is our hope that the power of prayer will accomplish the healing he hopes for.  He and his family are aware of the prayers that are being offered and they are very appreciative of them.

Ed is a native of Abrams, the second of eight children of the late William and Sophie Rovinski.  Having recently celebrated his eighty-second birthday, he is one of the most senior men in our Council.  He graduated Oconto High School with the class of 1938 and began serving the Church at an early age when he served as an altar boy for many years while living in Sobieski with his grandparents.  After being drafted into the military in 1942, he served our country for four years, and over half of that time was overseas in the European Theatre.  He found himself in Sicily, Italy, France and Germany as well as some time in Africa.  Ed married his wife, Irene in South Carolina in 1943, and they remain devoted to one another as they approach sixty years of living the Sacrament of Marriage.

After the war Ed and Irene lived in Chicago for a short time and then bought a farm in the Oconto Falls area where they lived for the next forty-six years.  During that time Ed also worked for twenty-six years for the Oconto County Highway Department and also served for twelve years as a Supervisor on the County Board.  Ed and Irene have two children, a daughter Judy (Bob) Fillman who is living in New Mexico and a son James (Jan) who lives in Kansas.

They sold the farm in 1996 and moved to Green Bay where they became a part of St. Bernard Parish.  It was somewhere around that same time that Dave Tlachac approached Ed about becoming a part of the Knights of Columbus.  He has for a long time had some interest in the Knights, but hadn't had the time to act on it.  Ed is currently a Third Degree Knight.  Poor health has been a problem for him lately; he has had to deal with prostate cancer as well as osteoporosis that has given him several fractured vertebrae.  The osteoporosis has forced him to lay aside a favorite hobby of carpentry since he cannot life more then five pounds and has a hard time sitting for any period of time.  Because of the difficulty sitting and a desire not to drive at night, Ed has found it impossible to join in Council meetings.

Ed remains hopeful that he will find the healing graces for which he and we have been praying.  He will be one of the first to receive a newly approved treatment this coming February which may help the osteoporosis and perhaps even enable him to spend some time in his workshop again.  In the meanwhile, the Council continues to pray for him.  As prayer works both ways, we also count on his prayers for us so that all the Council may truly be about the work entrusted to us by Christ.

July 2001