• Reverend Monsignor Marvin E. McPhee died Saturday May 10, 2014 at Dougherty House on the campus of Avera Prince of Peace where he had resided for the past 12 months.  His death was preceded by declining health.  Monsignor McPhee was eighty-eight years old.
• Marvin Edward McPhee was born on September 4, 1925 in Rapid City, SD to Roy and Bernice (nee Kennedy) McPhee.  He was raised in Fargo, ND, Aberdeen and eventually Kimball, where he graduated from high school in 1943.  Marvin began teaching and coaching immediately after high school graduation.  After four years, he enrolled at Northern State College where he graduated in 1949 with an education degree.  After college he went on to teach, coach and serve as

an administrator at the Bowdle, Westport, Leola, and Lemmon public schools.  In 1954 he completed his Master's Degree in education.
• In the fall of 1959, Marvin entered seminary formation, studying philosophy at Saint Jerome Seminary in Kitchener, ONT and theology at Saint Paul Seminary in St. Paul, MN.  On May 27, 1965, he was ordained to the priesthood by the Most Reverend Lambert Hoch, Bishop of Sioux Falls, at Sacred Heart Church in Aberdeen.
• Upon ordination, Father McPhee was appointed principal and, later, superintendent of Roncalli High School in Aberdeen.  Concurrent to these appointments, he also served as Pastor of Saint John the Baptist Parish in Groton and All Saints Parish in Andover, continuing until 1979.  Father McPhee was then appointed Pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Gettysburg, of Holy Cross Parish in Ipswich, and again as Pastor of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton and All Saints Parishes in Groton and Andover.  In 1998, he retired from pastoral assignments.
• On October 26, 1996, Pope Saint John Paul II bestowed upon Father McPhee the distinction of Prelate of Honor of His Holiness.  The Most Reverend Robert J. Carlson, Bishop of Sioux Falls appointed Monsignor McPhee as Vicar General for the Diocese in 1999, an appointment he held until 2004.  At the invitation of the Most Reverend Charles Chaput, Archbishop of Denver, Monsignor McPhee served

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