Tipp City Herald
July 5, 1989
GOUBEAUX, FR. CLEMENT
- Funeral
Mass celebrated for Fr. Clement Goubeaux - A
celebrated funeral Mass was said at 2 p.m. on
Monday, July 3, in St. Charles Seminary, Carthagena
for the Rev. Clement N. Goubeaux, C.PP.S., age 85,
who died in Community Hospital, Coldwater on June
28. He was well known in the Tipp City area as he
spent vacations with his brother, the late Felix
Goubeaux and his family and frequently celebrated
Mass in the local church. He was born June 29, 1903
in Russia, Ohio, the son of August and Mary
Cordonnier Goubeaux. He is survived by one brother
Edward of Russia. In addition to his parents, he
was preceded in death by six brothers (one of them
Felix of Tipp City) and two sisters. Father
Goubeaux spent his younger years on a farm and
attended Francis Special Public School and St.
Remy's Catholic School in Russia. In Sept., 1935,
he entered St. Mary's Novitiate at Burkettsville and
spent one year; completing high school and junior
college at St. Joseph College at Rensslaer, Ind. He
then studied philosophy and theology at St. Charles
Seminary, Carthagena for six years. Ordained on May
10, 1936, he became chaplain at Maria Stein for the
Sisters of the Precious Blood. In August 1936 he
was assigned to St. Mary's Novitiate for 11 years
where he served as assistant master of novices;
novice master, procurator and superior of the
novitiate. He then worked in the Diocese of
Alexandria, La. at Evergreen, Homer and the Mission
of Haynesville, La. where he built the first
Catholic church at that location. In 1954, he was
assigned to St. Mary's Church, Garden City, Kansas
and during 10 years, remodeled the church and
school, built a center and added office space to the
rectory. In 1964 he served in Hill City, Kansas for
six months before returning to Ohio to St. Rose
Catholic Church in Mercer County. After 11 1/2
years as pastor at St. Rose, he retired to St.
Charles on Sept. 2, 1976. Following retirement, he
assisted at St. Remy's, the parish of his birth.
The Very Rev. John Kalicky, C.PP.S., provincial of
the order officiated at the funeral Mass. Burial
was in the seminary cemetery. Arrangements were by
Hogenbany's Funeral Home at St. Henry.