December 22: Father Walter Karrer, C.Ss.R.


Dec. 22, 2010

Father Walter Karrer, C.Ss.R.

Father Walter Karrer was a Redemptorist priest who served St. Joseph Parish, Wichita, for 17 years. He retired in 2008 and died in Liguori, Mo. He was born on Aug. 16, 1920, in Detroit, Michigan, and studied at the Redemptorist seminary in Oconomowoc, Wisc. He professed as a Redemptorist in 1941 and was ordained in 1947. In addition to Wichita, he served in Denver; Omaha; Kansas City, Mo.; Lebanon, Ind.; Davenport, Iowa; Midland, Mich.; Oconomowoc, Wisc.; and Tuscson, Ariz.