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Brother Paschal Steen, T.S.A., the last Tertiary member of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, died Nov. 2 at Elderwood of Uihlein in Lake Placid. He was 96.
Born in New York City, he served in the U.S. Navy during World War II before entering religious life as a Franciscan Tertiary Friar of the Atonement in 1952. He received his habit and was professed in 1953.
The Tertiaries were a Franciscan Third Order Secular group associated with the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement at Graymoor.
Brother Steen served at St. Joseph’s Friary, Saranac, where he oversaw maintenance of the grounds and buildings, the electrical system, furnaces and four major construction developments, including the visitor’s building, Paschal Family Building, which was named for him.
A Funeral Mass was offered Nov. 12 in St. Anthony’s Chapel at St. Paul Friary, Garrison. Burial was in the friars’ cemetery.
