 Fr. Augustine William
Netterville, OP
Of Fr. Augustine Netterville, Fr. Vincent Lamb wrote: "Good
lawyer, good case for permission to establish Church in San Francisco, St. Dominic's of
Pius Murphy; friend of Archbishop, but managed our side of conflict, others wanted to let
go -- he went on."
William Netterville was born on January 7, 1866, and on
October 19, 1884 he made profession as a Dominican friar. He was ordained on
September 17, 1890. Little else was recorded of him, except some of his dates and
places of assignment. After serving his first assignment in San Francisco, he was
sent to Benicia, California in 1885, and then to Vallejo in 1903. In the early
1920's he served in Antioch as well as on the Provincial Council, and then was made Vice
Pastor at St. Dominic's in San Francisco in 1924, where he remained for several years,
serving in various capacities, such as Master of Conversi (1932) and Sub-Prior
(1939).
In 1950 he retired to Ross, California where he died in 1954. Fr. Antoninus Wall
remembers him as a quiet, unobtrusive man. Late in life when he had been bed-ridden
for years the novices gave him the nickname "snowshoes" for walking around the
house in slippers.
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