Kramer Funeral Home

Verdick, 86, of Alpha, Minnesota, will be 11:00 a.m. Friday, January 18, 2019 at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Lakefield, Minnesota.  Burial will be in Good Shepherd Catholic Cemetery in Jackson, Minnesota.Father Verdick was called to his eternal rest on Sunday morning, January 13, 2019 at the Good Samaritan Society in Jackson, Minnesota.  Visitation will be from 5:00 p.m.- 7:00 p.m. Thursday, January 17, 2019 at Church of the Good Shepherd in Jackson, Minnesota with a Holy Rosary at 7:00 p.m.Services were entrusted to the care of the Kramer Family Funeral Home. Please share a memory of Father Verdick with his family by signing his online guest book at www.kramerfuneralhome.comJerome Francis Verdick was born September 17, 1932 at Alpha, Minnesota, the third of four children born to Peter Camiel Verdick and Roselle Margaret Skalicky.  He attended grade school in Alpha and high school in Jackson.  After graduating from high school, he entered the Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary at Winona, Minnesota where he completed his philosophical studies and graduated from St. Mary’s College, followed four more years of theology at the St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota.  He was ordained to the diocesan priesthood on May 31, 1958, by Bishop Edward Fitzgerald at St. John, the Evangelist Church in Rochester, Minnesota.  He began his priestly career serving as associate pastor at St. Augustine, Austin (1958); St. Stanislaus Kostka, Winona (1961); SS. Peter and Paul, Blue Earth and Our Lady of Mercy, Guckeen (1962); St. Theodore, Albert Lea and St. James, Twin Lakes (1965); In 1967, he affiliated with the St. James the Apostle Society, Boston to work for five years in Latin American missions. After serving in Peru South America, he returned to his diocese at first serving at St. Francis, Rochester (1972); administrator of Assumption, Canton and St. Olaf, Mabel (1974).  He became administrator of Dundee in 1976 and pastor of St. Matthew, Vernon Center and St. Joseph, Good Thunder in 1981 as he continued to work with the Hi...