You probably recognize this guy! He wears many hats at St. Francis de Sales and has done so since he joined the parish in 1982. Ray Wrobleski has been an usher for 34 years at St. Francis de Sales (and for 20 years before that at his former parish in Milwaukee!). He has faithfully “passed the basket” and seated people almost every Sunday. Until recently, he was the “people counter” at Mass. You might be interested to know that we are assigned to have counts done on assigned weekends by the Archdiocese. Ray would go up into the loft for a portion of each of our five weekend Masses and take a head count for our report. He says even though the count would fluctuate a bit depending on the weekend, that all in all it has been consistent over the past 20 years that he took on this responsibility. Probably the least visible job that he does is as the treasurer of the St. Francis de Sales Cemetery Committee. Over the years the committee has dwindled to one person (Ray), so he has many duties there. He was instrumental in having a sign designed and installed, and had some of the roads repaved. Ray coordinates the paperwork of selling the cemetery plots and mausoleum niches, pays the bills, oversees the perpetual care investments and makes sure that the landscaping is maintained. If you’ve never been there, the cemetery is about a mile east of the church on Highway 50 on the south side of the road. And if that wasn’t enough, Ray is also a member of the Knights of Columbus and helps serve at the KC breakfast each month.
He and his wife Lorraine (also an amazing volunteer) have five children who live in Florida, California and Wisconsin.
Thank you, Ray, for doing ALL of these things for St. Francis de Sales! You are a blessing!