Br. Humbert William

Rudolph and Minnie Hruby gave birth to their fourth and last child, Howard Henry, on March 2, 1921, in St. Paul. He attended Sacred Heart Parish school before entering Cretin High School in 1934. Howard spent only one semester there and in February of 1935 he entered the Juniorate at Glencoe, Missouri, where three years later he entered the Novitiate where he received the robe the religious name of Brother Humbert William. One year later he professed his first vows and was off to his Scholasticate training at St. Mary's College in Winona where he received his B.S. in Mathematics. His first assignment was at CBCHS in St. Louis, Missouri, but he did not stay long before being stationed at Boys Town, in Omaha, Nebraska. His love of woodworking developed here and for eleven years he was in charge of the Industrial Arts Department at De La Salle Institute and St. Patrick's High School, both in Chicago, Illinois. Brother H. William was assigned to Pacelli High School in Stevens Point and later at Xavier High School in Appleton. He returned to Pacelli where he retired from active teaching and did work with the elderly in nursing homes and grade school children. He eventually took up residence at Lake Ridge and then St. Mary's Home in St. Paul where he died of kidney problems at the age of seventy-three, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for fifty-nine years.