WALLED LAKE — His impressive knowledge of the Scriptures and Holy Land never got in his way from having a good demeanor about himself.

“‘Hi, I’m Ed, with the bald head,’ that’s how he would introduce himself,” said Fr. Mike Savickas, pastor of St. William Parish in Walled Lake, recalling his friend and priestly colleague, Fr. Edward Scheuerman, who died March 17. He was 91.

For the last years of his ministry, Fr. Scheuerman assisted Fr. Savickas at St. William, offering parish retreats and reconciliation, all the while gracing parishioners with insights that came from a lifetime of academia and studying the Scriptures.

“He had this profound insight, not only in humans, but the Scriptures, giving them a very human background with setting the history behind the story,” Fr. Savickas said. “He was always a teacher, no matter where he was.”

Edward Scheuerman was born May 23, 1925, in Detroit to Frederick and Irene (Kloepfer) Scheuerman. After graduating from Sacred Heart Seminary in 1946 and the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., in 1950, Fr. Scheuerman was ordained by Cardinal Edward Mooney on May 20, 1950.

Upon ordination, Fr. Scheuerman served as associate pastor at St. Bartholomew Parish in Detroit before serving on staff at Sacred Heart Seminary, where he was a Latin professor and dean of discipline.

Fr. Scheuerman later served as the founding principal of St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Southgate in 1966 and later served on the faculty of Bishop Gallagher High School in Harper Woods and Regina High School in Livonia.

“Ed was a rich resource to have around all the time,” said Fr. Bill Murphy, who lived with Fr. Scheuerman at the Senior Clergy Village for 11 years.

“For years on Sunday we would go out to dinner, and we became good friends,” Fr. Murphy said. “Here at the Senior Clergy Village, we had a group that discussed Scriptures and approaching the homily and Ed would have this rich wisdom from studying in the Holy Land.”

Fr. Scheuerman was also pastor of St. Martin of Tours Parish in Detroit from 1971-81, before moving to St. Patrick Parish in Wyandotte.

Fr. Scheuerman also was a founding member of the Paternoster Club, a retreat lodge on Lake St. Clair in Stoney Point, Ontario, for priests of the Archdiocese of Detroit; it was there that Fr. Joe Romano got to know him.

“Ed really loved to travel, he had this great enthusiasm by traveling around the world and going to Europe and the Holy Land,” said Fr. Romano, who later lived with him at the Senior Clergy Village. “He had a very good memory, a good mind that could remember details. During our Scripture study sessions, he would pray the breviary, reading the number of diseased priests who would have been celebrating an anniversary that week.”

Later in his priestly ministry, Fr. Scheuerman was an administrator at St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Newport (1994-95), St. Mark in Warren (1995) and Christ the King in Detroit (1999).

After retiring, he started ministering at St. William, forever the teacher who still had a lesson to give.

“He is well known in the parish, and everybody appreciated his voice; he had this captivating voice, and a lot of wisdom to share,” Fr. Savickas said. “He was enthusiastic, embracing new ideas and new teaching techniques. Later in life when his body would start deteriorating, he’d quote Shakespeare, saying, ‘O that this too solid flesh would melt.’ His wisdom and peaceful excitement is what I’ll miss. He was never somber, always enthusiastic, always had this great delight.”

Fr. Scheuerman is survived by his siblings, Bernice (Charles) Chiniz-Ruemenapp, Estelle (Al) Brengman, Fred (Christine) Scheuerman, Helen Morley, Robert Scheuerman, and Thomas (Linda) Scheuerman.