Br. Patrick Jonathan

Owen Meegan was born one of six children to Dorothy Sullivan Meegan and Eugene P. Meegan, on March 21, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois. He attended De La Salle High School in Chicago for three years before entering the Juniorate in 1958. After Novitiate he earned one of his five degrees, his B.A., at St. Mary’s College in Winona. There he also earned his M.Ed. in 1968 and later went on to earn his M.A. at the University of Detroit (1969), his D.A. at Idaho State University (1976) and his J.D. at Loyola University in Chicago (1992). His first teaching assignment took him to Christian Brothers College High School in St. Louis, Missouri in 1963 and the following year to Bishop Gallagher High School in Harper Woods, Minnesota. In 1966 he was transferred to Bishop Noll High School in Hammond, Indiana and three years later, in 1969, to St. Paul Shared-Time High School in Chicago. In 1970 he began teaching at Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois, and in 1972 at Pensionat St. Josef, Vienna, Austria, for a year. In 1973 he returned to Lewis University and in 1975 he taught at St. Gabriel’s in East Elmhurst, New York, for a year. The next eleven years were spent at Lewis University and in 1987 he went to C.I.L. in Rome, Italy. He was appointed Sub-Director and teacher in the Residency Community in Chicago in 1987 and remained there until 1980 when once again he pursued graduate work at Loyola University while living in the St. Patrick High School Community. In 1993 he opened a law practice and remained in that work until 2001 when he returned to Lewis University to teach once again. He died on December 29th in Chicago at the age of sixty-five and had been a De La Salle Christian Brother for forty-eight years.
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