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Exhibit featuring Blessed Stanley Rother now on display in the Henry G. Bennett Memorial Library

June 1, 2026

DURANT, Okla. – The Henry G. Bennett Memorial Library is pleased to present an exhibit exploring the life and work of Blessed Stanley Rother, a 1965 graduate of Southeastern Oklahoma State University and a 2024 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient.

Rother was born in 1935 during the Dust Bowl and was raised on a farm in Okarche, Oklahoma. He was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest in 1963 and served multiple parishes in Oklahoma for five years — including his first at St. Williams Catholic Church here in Durant.

In 1968, he joined a burgeoning Oklahoma mission to the Tz’utujil people in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, at that time one of the most impoverished regions in the country. He served there for thirteen years, as civil unrest and violence spread throughout the country. In July 1981, in service to his work among the Tz’utujil, he was tragically executed. Over three decades later, Rother became the first U.S. born declared a martyr and the first U.S. priest to be beatified by the Catholic Church.

This exhibit was inspired by a donation initiated by Marilyn Hitchcok on behalf of the St. Williams Altar Society.

Summer hours for the Henry G. Bennett Memorial Library are 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Sundays through the end of July.

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