Father Daniel Bernard O’Connor, the first diocesan priest to be pastor for St. Patrick’s parish, was also instrumental in beginning the Havelock Dining Hall at the State Fair. Adelaide Laux Paradise remembered it as a big undertaking and a successful one. According to Nellie McKinney, the State Fair stand was a big moneymaker, and the men and women were all hard workers. The truck left at 6 a.m. carrying workers who would get home about midnight. There were no two or threehour shifts. They worked out in the open, and it was fun. Father O’Connor was pastor of St. Patrick’s for eighteen productive years, from 1914-1932. He was named a Domestic Prelate on December 24, 1947. Monsignor O’Connor died at St. Francis Hospital in Osceola, Nebraska in 1949.