Today, his parishioners at Sacred Heart Church in Ida Grove, Iowa, and Our Lady of Good Counsel in Holstein, Iowa, call him Father Hemann.

Mary and Alfred Lowery were married Dec. 12, 1953, in the Sacred Heart Church in Butte. They made their home in the Deer Lodge Valley where Mary began her nurs ing career.

Subsequent to his removal, a similar allegation surfaced regarding his earlier assignment at Sacred Heart in Waterloo, where he was an associate pastor from 1971 through 1977.