Father Wittman recalled as kind, humble, devoted to Catholic education

Deb Myers, a parishioner at Holy Name of Jesus in Wayzata, knew Father Peter Wittman when she was a high school student in 1974. And after decades of friendship, as a hospice nurse and lifelong friend, she was with him when he died in a care facility in Eden Prairie Oct. 15. His brother, Mark, the only sibling living in the Twin Cities, was also at his bedside. Father Wittman was 74.

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