Pastors of the church were:
Father P.Schorr-1907-1914(he had a rectory built in 1908)
Father A.Fallonier-1914-1919
Father Dufresne-1920
Father T.Theunissin-cared for the parish for one year from Lampman Sask. For the next 2 years there was no resident priest.
Father J.Rheindl-1924-1926
Father Milnar-1927
Father Gross-1927-1929
Father Wilhelm-1928
Father A.Gillot-1929-1941
Father P.Komus-1941-1949
Fathre E.Gilpin-1949-1968
Father Barton-1968-1969
The church closed in 1969 and was dismantled. Over the years
some sixty families had attended this church. Some of these were:
Dukart, Fichter, Glasser, Hagel, Mack, Miiller, Schell, Ternes,
Walliser, Wanner and Zimmerman.
St. Joseph, Landau Catholic Cemetery
The cemetery is located across the road from the former
church and is in the RM of Benson #35; NE1/4- Sec 12-Twsp 4- Rg 7 W2; land owner was Louie Dillman.
Years ago a grass fire destroyed all the old wooden crosses.
New crosses were erected, with out names on these markers, as
exact location of the proper graves was not known. There are 151
headstones and crosses (99 unnamed). Some burials on homesteads
were later reburied at this cemetery. A few of these names from
early 1900's were not recorded in the church records.
Permission to copy the church burial records, was granted by
Fr.Peter Komas. He also translated the Latin and some French from
the earlier records. These registers are located in the rectory at Lampman.
Recording of data from headstones was done by R. Mack.
From the Benson and Lampman history books, I was able to find a
few dates of death for some of the earlier burials.
| Compiled and submitted by: |
Rosemary Mack Bienfait SK October 1994 |
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