A funeral Mass for Father Larry T. Huber will be celebrated April 17 at Ste. Genevieve Church in Ste. Genevieve. Father Huber died in a motorcycle crash April 9 in Jefferson County. He was 61 years old.
He was born in Perryville on July 2, 1964, the son of Larry Sr. and Judith (Meyer) Huber. He was a 1982 graduate of Valle Catholic High School in Ste. Genevieve and earned his degree at Southeast Missouri State University in 1986 before entering Kenrick Seminary. Archbishop Justin F. Rigali ordained him to the priesthood on May 27, 1995, at the Cathedral of Saint Louis.
Father Huber served as an associate pastor at Our Lady Queen of Peace in House Springs (1995-2001) and was on the faculty at St. Pius X High School in Festus (1997-99). In 2001, he was assigned associate pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Cottleville, where he served until 2006.
He also was pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Josephville (2006-13), Immaculate Conception Parish in Arnold (2013-18) and a senior associate pastor at St. Gerard Majella Parish in Kirkwood (2018-21). In 2022, he was named pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish in Park Hills and administrator of St. John the Apostle in Bismarck. He also served as a chaplain in the United States Navy and was a member of the Knights of Columbus.
Father Huber was one of the visionaries behind the Community of Transcendent Men in Jefferson County, a ministry to help men develop their roles as leaders at home, community and Church. In a 2021 Catholic St. Louis magazine article, Father Huber said in his counseling with married couples, he recognized the importance of building up men in their roles as spiritual leaders within their families, their Church and their communities. The Community of Transcendent Men was designed as a community of like-minded men, where they can openly share their faith and transcend through building a relationship with Christ and following the teachings of Christ and His Church, he said.
“We want them to recognize they’re part of a team,” said Father Huber, who with several others got the group off the ground in 2016 when he was pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish in Arnold. “One of the traps that married men fall into is that they try to deal with family or other situations by themselves and that is a recipe for disaster. We want them to be a better Christian influence in to our world, and to do so we have to be an army of men — a community of men.”
“In this culture, it takes so much adult and masculine presence to raise Christian children in an anti-Christian world,” Father Huber said. “We’re losing our children from the faith, because we’re trying to do it ourselves.”
He is survived by his mother, Judith (Meyer) Huber; his brothers, Dale G. (Julie) Huber and Scott A. (Tais) Huber; his sister, Sheri G. (Bradley) Vahlkamp; and his nieces and nephews: Ashley (Kyle) Fraser, Hailey (Zach Abrams) Abell, Paige (John) McCaffrey, Brett Abell, Jared Huber, Joseph Huber, Brooke (Matthew) Hoff, Lucas Huber, Isabella Huber, Sergio Huber, Carley (Eric) Klaus, Emily (Curtis) Wolf and Elizabeth Vahlkamp. He is also survived by many great-nieces and great-nephews.
He was preceded in death by his father, Larry, and his brother-in-law, David M. Abell.
Burial will be in Valle Spring Cemetery in Ste. Genevieve.
