FALLS CITY (SNR) – Between the third and fourth quarters of the homecoming football game Oct. 11, the community of Sacred Heart High School in Falls City honored a man who committed most of his adult life to the success of Sacred Heart School.
Msgr. Robert Roh came to Falls City in 1988 as superintendent of Sacred Heart and pastor of Ss. Peter and Paul Parish. Although he is now retired from both positions, he still travels with the Sacred Heart sports teams and is an active supporter of everything Sacred Heart.
With a standing ovation Oct. 11, Msgr. Roh humbly received a photo montage of his years at Sacred Heart while an homage written by fifth-grade teacher, Pam Smith was read.
“Every once in a while a person comes along who leaves a lasting impression on a place and the people of that place,” she wrote…. “The one who personifies all we are as the Irish of Falls City Sacred Heart. Monsignor Robert Roh, we cannot imagine what we would have been without you! You are our person!”
Msgr. Roh was a native of Ss. Peter and Paul Parish in Abie, and was ordained in 1965. He retired from active ministry in 2015, after celebrating the 50th anniversary of his ordination.
In August 2015, Bishop James Conley blessed and dedicated the new Roh Activity Center at Sacred Heart. The facility, which includes a gymnasium, a new lunch room and commons area, a new P.E. facility and weight room, a new venue for concerts and presentations, and a practice facility that will also be used for junior high games, was named in gratitude for Msgr. Roh’s decades of service to the school.
