Submitted by: Dan Rich
Feb. 10, 1919 – March 13, 1972
South Bend Tribune 3-13-1972
Rev. James P. Doll CSC, 53, a microbiologist at the University of Notre Dame since 1956, died this morning in Hennepin County Hospital, Minneapolis, where he had been a patient for two and a half months. He was born in Perham, Minn., on Feb. 10, 1919, entered the Holy Cross Seminary on Aug. 15, 1939, and was ordained on June 24, 1946. He received his bachelors degree from Notre Dame, his master degree from Holy Cross College, Washington DC, and his doctorate degree from the University of California, Berkley.
From 1954 to 1960, he was a teacher and prefect at Notre Dame and from 1963 to 1968 he was on staff at the University of Portland, Portland, Ore. In 1968 he returned to Notre Dame, where he was engaged in teaching and research.
Surviving are three brothers, George of Amery, Wis., Louis of LaGrange, Ill., and Eugene of Yakima, Wash. Father Doll was engaged in research on undulant fever and was a speaker for youth groups throughout the country. He collaborated with Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame, on a publication for serviceman during World War II.
Services will be held at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in the Moreau Seminary, with burial in Community Cemetery. A wake will begin at 1 p.m. Wednesday with wake services at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday.