Written by Los Altos Town Crier Report
Father James Arnold Conard died April 30, 2021 at the at Maryknoll, New York. Born November 27, 1929 in Green Bay, Wisconsin, son of Clifford and Estella (Van Den Wymelenberg) Conard, he was 91 years old and a Maryknoll priest for 64 years. Father Jim had one sister, Audrey, and three brothers, Tom, Paul, and John. After grade school at St. John the Evangelist, he attended Central Catholic High School. He entered Maryknoll at Lakewood, New Jersey in September 1947 and was ordained a priest June 9, 1956.
Father Conard was assigned to Africa at the Musoma Prefecture, beginning his over 60 years of service in Tanzania. His first 17 were at Iramba Parish on the edge of the Serengeti Plains. In Ngoreme, he built the Standard Seven Primary School in 1964. In 1965 he built a dispensary, chapels and a church at Iramba. He introduced Friesian cattle to the area. From 1973-1976, Father Conard worked at Zana