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BROTHER AMBROSE STEVEN SONTAG OBITUARY Reprinted with Permission © Shawnee News Star
BROTHER AMBROSE STEVEN SONTAG
1939 - 2006
Brother Ambrose Steven Sontag, O.S.B., a monk of St. Gregory's Abbey, Shawnee, Okla., died Sunday, December 3, from renal failure and other complications of diabetes. He had recently celebrated his 67th birthday.Brother Ambrose was born on November 16, 1939, in Tulsa to Charles and Edna Small Sontag and given the name Steven. He completed grade school at St. Francis School and high school at Marquette, in Tulsa, and then entered St. Gregory's Abbey. He made his first monastic profession as a Benedictine monk of St. Gregory's Abbey on December 8, 1960, and simple perpetual vows on December 8, 1961. When the opportunity was provided to brothers, he made Solemn Vows.After a number of years in the monastery, Brother Ambrose resumed his education, first at St. Gregory's College, receiving an Associate of Arts in 1973. He attended The University of Oklahoma and was awarded a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting in 1975.Over the years, Brother Ambrose served the community in a variety of ways. He helped in the Abbey's cattle operation. He served St. Gregory's College and University over the years by assisting in the library, serving as manager of the print shop and then the book store, as residence hall advisor, as accounts receivable clerk and then business manager, as director of computer operations, and as manager of the campus telephone system, before ill health forced his retirement. He was honored with the Legacy Award for years of faithful service at the University's Spring Commencement ceremonies in 2004.Brother Ambrose is survived by the monastic community of St. Gregory's Abbey; sister, Maryann Sontag of Tulsa; brother, Tom Sontag of Florida; and niece, Megan Sontag of Tulsa.He is predeceased by his parents.Vigils of the Office of the Dead for Brother Ambrose will be celebrated at 4:30 p.m. today in the St. Gregory's Abbey Church, Shawnee.The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Wednesday, December 6, at 3 p.m. in the Abbey Church with Abbot Lawrence Stasyszen, O.S.B., as the principal celebrant.Burial will follow in the St. Gregory's Abbey Cemetery.In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Gregory's Abbey or St. Gregory's University, 1900 W. MacArthur Drive, Shawnee, Oklahoma 74804.
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