Submitted by: Dan Rich

Rev. Walter W. Goff CSC

June 26, 1912 – Apr. 30, 1979

South Bend Tribune 5/1/1979

Rev. Walter W. Goff CSC, 66, died unexpectedly following a heart attack on Monday at Corby Hall on the Notre Dame campus. He was chaplain of Columba Hall, the Holy Cross Brothers residence on campus, at the time of his death. Rev. Goff was born on June 26, 1912 in Reading, Mass. and entered Holy Cross Seminary at North Dartmouth, Mass. on Aug. 15, 1939. He made his first profession of vows in 1941 and was ordained a priest in 1945 at Sacred Heart Church, Notre Dame. He taught at the Columbia Preparatory School, University of Portland, Ore. from 1946 to 1948 and from 1949 to 1951. He was a member of the University of Portland faculty from 1951 to 1964. He then served as retreat and mission master from 1964 to 1967 and became chaplain at the University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1967. He returned to Notre Dame in 1968 as an assistant pastor at Little Flower Catholic Church. He was named chaplain to the brothers at Columba Hall in 1970 and also served as chronicler for the Holy Cross Community.

A funeral mass will be at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in the Moreau Seminary Chapel, with burial in the Community Cemetery on the campus. Friends may call after 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in Columba Hall where a wake service will be at 7:30 p.m.