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<br />I Slar Tribune/Sunday/July 23/1995
<br />I. lObituariesl
<br />. Rev. Terrance Berntson dies;'
<br />I was co-pastor of 3 churches
<br />I By Pat Pheifer St. Gregory the Great since 1978. Berntson is survived by brothers
<br /> StaffW riter Thomas, of Maywood, N.J., and
<br /> Berntson was born and raised in Kevin, of England, and a sister,
<br /> The Rev. Terrance W. Berntson, 60, Roseville and went to grade school Beverly, of Duluth. Services will be
<br />I co-pastor of SI. Gregory the Great, at St. Rose of Lima. He went to high held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at SI. Leo's
<br /> SI. Leo's and SI. Therese Catholic school at Nazareth Hall and went to Catholic Church, 2055 Bohland
<br /> churches in SI. Paul, died Wednes- the SI. Paul Seminary. He was or- Av., SI. Paul. Visitation will be held
<br /> day. He suffered a heart attack. dained Feb. 21, 1960. He began his from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday at St.
<br />I while driving home from his lake ministry as associate pastor at Im- Gregory the Great Catholic Church,
<br /> cottage near Pine City, Minn. maculate Conception. Church in 1640 Montreal Av., SI. Paul. Me-
<br /> Faribault, Minn., and also taugln at morials are suggested to the Msgr.
<br /> The three parishes to which Bernt- Bethlehem Academy and was chap- Terrance Berntson Memorial Fund
<br /> son ministered have become known lain at the Faribault State Hospital. for Highland Catholic Community
<br />I as the Highland Catholic Communi- In June 1962, he became associate Churches. Arrangements are by the
<br /> ty Churches. The arrangement came pastor at the SI. Paul Cathedral. O'Halloran & Murphy Funeral
<br /> about because of a shortage of That October, he traveled to Rome Home.
<br /> priests in the archdiocese. to become a canon lawyer. When be
<br />I returned to Minnesota in August Dorothy McHugh,
<br /> The churches have coordinated 1965, he was named chancellor of
<br /> their worship services so that the the Archdiocese of SI. Paul and from 'I've fallen' ad
<br /> combined membership of more Minneapolis, He was chanceUor un.
<br />I- than 1.800 families can attend mass til 1973 and resident chaplain at the Associated Press
<br /> at any of the three. College of SI. Catherine lD 51, Paul
<br /> from 1966 to 1971. Philadelphia, Pa.
<br /> "I truly think every person in this Dorothy McHugh, whose plaintive
<br /> parish feels their own sense of per- Berntson was pastor ofSI. Cecilia's cry "I've fallen, and I can't get up"
<br />I sonal loss because of their connec. Church in St. Paul from August in a commercial made a national I
<br /> tion to (Berntson]," said Laura Ko- 1971 to May 1973, when he became success of a medical calling device,
<br /> lar, coordinator of ministries for the pastor at the Basilica of St. Mary. died Wednesday, a week after suf- e
<br /> three parishes. "He's known as an He moved to SI. Gregory's in 1978. fering a series of strokes. She was
<br />I excellent preacher. He really drew When he could get a day off, he 87. T
<br /> people in. He had a way of just went to his lake cottage, Kolar said.
<br /> inviting and encouraging people to The former Ziegfeld Follies dancer c
<br /> become part of the church." His death doesn't mean an end to was hired about 10 years ago by
<br /> the Highland Community Catholic Lifeline Systems Inc. of Cambridge,
<br />I Berntson and the Rev. Tom Hun- Churches, Hunstiger said Saturday. Mass. "Everyone still talks about
<br /> stiger had been co-pastors of the Another priest will be assigned to that commercial," said company ,
<br /> churches since July 1994. Before the comm~ity. officialJ ean Shea.
<br /> that, Berntson had been pastor of r
<br />I Two trumpet~r swans born
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<br /> It's the first time in 150 years for Ramsey County
<br />I Two rare trumpeter swans have spans of 6 to 8 feet. The cygnets Galli added, "The swans' presence
<br /> been born in a wetland at the Twin were discovered in Marsden Lake, a is an indication of just how special
<br /> Cities Army Ammunition Plant in 560-acre wetland at the eastern end the [arsenal's) natural resources are,
<br /> Arden Hills, the Minnesota Depart- of the ammunition plant. Marsden since wild trumpeter swans seek re-
<br />I ment of Natural Resources said Sat- is one of the largest wetlands with mote, undisturbed wetlands for
<br /> urday. an undeveloped shoreline in the nesting. .,
<br /> metropolitan area.
<br /> - The DNR said it apparently is the The Army no longer has use for the
<br />. first time in more than 150 years "The cygnets' parents are probably 55-year-old arsenal, and the De-
<br /> that trumpeters have nested suc- two of the six trumpeters that spent fense Department is determining
<br /> cessfully in Ramsey County, The last summer at Marsden," Galli how much of the tract might be
<br /> young swans, or cygnets, are about said. She said that the DNR and declared excess land. Sev~ral pri-
<br /> four weeks old, said Joan Galli, a Hennepin Parks placed two swans vate groups and Arden Hills have
<br />I DNR nongame wildlife specialist. in the wetland in .1992 as part of a different plans for the tract. They
<br /> program to manage some of the include a proposals that a chunk be
<br /> Trumpeter swans are the largest wa- undeveloped land in the 2,370-acre left undeveloped as a park or wild-
<br /> terfowl in North America, weighing site for wildlife. !ife area and that at least part of the
<br /> as much as 38 pounds with wing- tract be commercially developed.
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