St Kilians Bear Valley

05/26/2025

It was a beautiful day to celebrate Memorial Day at St. Kilians in Bear Valley. There was a very nice turnout for the Mass followed by fellowship with refreshments in the church basement.

Thank you to Fr. Nathan for presiding over St. Kilian's Memorial Day services for the past several years, and best wishes as you move on to a new parish.

05/22/2025

Father Nathan Thainase will once again preside over the Memorial Day Mass at St. Kilian's Church in Bear Valley on Monday, May 26, 2025 at 9:00am.
Following the Mass, there will be refreshments and fellowship in the church basement. Additionally, in the basement, there will be items that are no longer used, including but not limited to, chairs, dishes, pitchers, roasters, and kitchen towels. These will be available after the Mass for a free-will offering.

04/09/2025

St. Kilian's Annual meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 22, 2025 @ 4pm. The meeting will be held in the main church.

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07/24/2024

Continuing to make improvements at St. Kilians. New driveway, sidewalk, entrance, handicap ramp, to name a few. A special thank you to everyone involved.

05/28/2024

05/28/2024

The weather cooperated and it was beautiful day at St Kilians Bear Valley for a Memorial Day Mass.

04/10/2024

Mark your calendar for Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Weather permitting, routine maintenance work will be done beginning at 9:00am. This will include removing all debris from church grounds. In addition, burial sites will be marked with rebar in the new section of the cemetery. Bring your rakes, tape measures, etc. The more people, the faster the work gets done.

04/01/2024

The annual meeting of St. Kilian's Cemetery Association is scheduled for Saturday, April 6, 2024 @ 1:00pm. The meeting will take place in the church.

06/02/2023

Had a great turnout and beautiful weath to celebrate Memorial Day. We even had a bird attend Mass.

A huge thank you to everyone who attended. Also thank you to those who contributed their time to make the day special.
Donna Durst and Alan Lins for the music.
Charles McCall for serving Mass.
Father Nathan for presiding.
Flowers from Dee Munz, St. Mary's Keyesville, and Diane Emerson.
Steve Emerson for readings.
Meghan, Brianna and Morgan McCall & Tom Slaney for presenting the gifts.
Everyone who helped with refreshments afterwards.
Chad Clary for keeping the cemetery and church grounds mowed & trimmed.

12/17/2022

Today, December 17, 2022, the cemetery at St Kilian's in Bear Valley was the site of a veteran recognization ceremony. This ceremony was to remember all the veterans laid to rest in this cemetery. The program was coordinated by St. Kilians Veteran Recognition - Bear Valley, WI. A special thank you to all the people who made this program possible including the Lone Rock American Legion Post 383 for providing the honor guard as well as making & donating all of the wreaths, St. Kilians Veteran Recognition - Bear Valley, WI for organizing the ceremony, Emma Schoen who did a beautiful job of playing TAPS, Mark Jelinek for being the MC, John Schmitz for leading the songs, and especially the families and friends of the veterans who are buried at this cemetery. Those attending the ceremony were able to place wreaths at the headstones of veterans who are buried at St. Kilians.
It was a cold and windy day but many people arrived early to make sure all the wreaths were in place and also helped to remove snow and ice from the headstones.
A huge thank you to the students from St. Mary School-Richland Center and members of the Buena Vista Wonder Workers 4-H Club who participated in today's program. These students were a great help in clearing snow from headstones today and placing wreaths. Over the past year, many of the same youth helped clean headstones and do general clean-up at St. St Kilians Bear Valley.
Please make plans to attend next year's program that will take place on Saturday, December 16, 2023.

11/01/2022

In the photo Albums the Historical Records dating back to 1928 have been added.