----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner 09/27/1978

FATHER PIUS LEABEL
 

Father Pius (Arthur) Leabel, formerly of Loyal, Clark County, now residing at the Mater Dolorosa Monastery in Sierra Madre, Cal., died on Sept. 20, 1978, at a Pasadena hospital.

Funeral services were conducted at 10 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 23 at Mater Dolorosa Monastery in Sirra Madre, Cal. Burial was in the moastery cemetery.

Father Pius Leabel was born in Loyal on April 13, 1899, to Sam and Susan Leabel.

He was a member of the first graduating class of St. Anthony's Grade School in 1913. In the fall of 1913, he entered the Mt. Calvary Minor Seminary. He was a graduate of St. Lawrence College, Mt. Calvary. He obtained his training in philosophy and theology in St. Louis and Cincinnati. He received his master's degree at De Paul University, Chicago and had done postgraduate work at the University of Detroit, the University of Chicago and Catholic University in Washington, D.C.

Father Leabel originated the first workshops in the Los Angeles archdiocese and demonstrated workshop techniques at both the Denver and Boston conventions of the Homiletic Society and conducted workshops in Chicago, Mt. Angel, Ore. And Wichita, Kan. He, for almost 40 years, taught newly ordained priest and conducted a (the rest of my copy was cut off)