24/04/2015
Brother Robert E. Ruel, S.C., 83, of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart Provincial House, Pascoag, RI, died April 13, 2015 at Overlook Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Pascoag, RI. Born in Biddeford, ME, he was the son of the late Elzéar and Marie Anne (Bedard) Ruel. He was also known as Brother Clarence, returning to his baptismal name in 1964.
Brother Robert entered the Brothers of the Sacred Heart at Winthrop, Maine in August, 1947. He pronounced his first vows at Ancienne Lorette, P.Q. in 1950, and his perpetual vows at Mount St. Charles, Academy, Woonsocket, RI, in 1956. He completed a Bachelor of Science degree from Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama, in 1954 after having completed a Teaching Certificate from the University of Montréal.
Brother Robert began teaching in Woonsocket, RI, in 1954, at Precious Blood Grammar School, commonly known as "Le Petit Collège de Hamlet". In February, 1956, he went to Sacred Heart School in Sharon, MA. A lifelong missionary vocation in Lesotho (Basutoland) began in 1956 and continued until 2014, where Brother Robert was a teacher, a school principal/headmaster, treasurer in schools and for the religious community, and the regional superior for the Brothers of the Sacred Heart in Lesotho from 1978-1984. Brother Robert returned to the United States in November, 2014, due to illness.
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