Zeno Reising  1908-1976
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Zeno Reising

The Carroll Times Herald, January 1976

The Rev. Msgr. Zeno Reising, 67, pastor of St. Margaret's Catholic Church at Rolfe for the past 3 ½ years, died of an apparent heart attack at the parish rectory Sunday evening. He was a native of Breda and a former chaplain at St. Anthony Hospital.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at St. Margaret's Catholic Church where the Most Rev. Frank H. Greteman, bishop of the Sioux City diocese will celebrate the mass of Christian burial. The casket will then be brought to Breda to lie in state at St. Bernard's Church until 11 a.m. Friday, when the parish mass will be celebrated. Internment will be in the parish cemetery at Breda, under direction of the Powers Funeral Home of Rolfe.

Msgr. Reising was born at Breda Oct. 23, 1908, a son of Max and Clara Boes Reising. He attended school through eighth grade at Breda, high school and college at Conception, Mo., and graduated from McHenry Seminary, St. Louis, Mo. On June 3, 1934, he was ordained to the priesthood in Sioux City by the late Most Rev. Edmond F. Heelan, D.D.

Besides serving as chaplain at the hospital in Carroll, he was assistant pastor at Granville and pastor at Merrill, Anthon and Brancroft before going to Rolfe. While at Anthon he was dean of the Northwest Deanery.

Msgr. Reising was a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Rolfe Chamber of Commerce and the Lion's Club, also at Rolfe.

Surviving are two brothers, Gregory Reising of Mapleton and Mike Reising of Breda; four sister, Mrs. William Becker, of Glidden, Mrs. Rosina O'Tool of Carroll, Mrs. Jerry (Leone) Eischeid of Guthrie Center and Mrs. Walter (Bernice) Pudenz of Rose Creek, Minn.

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