Submitted by: Dan Rich

Brother Nilus Grix CSC

Feb. 26, 1905 – Mar. 9, 1974

South Bend Tribune 3/9/1974

Brother Nilus Grix CSC, 69, religious supervisor at the St. Joseph Farm, Granger, died at 11:15 a.m. today in the Dujarie House Infirmary on the Holy Cross Junior College campus, after an illness of several weeks. He had been associated with the St. Joseph and Notre Dame farms for 41 years. He was born in Detroit on Feb. 26, 1905, and entered the Brothers of Holy Cross at Watertown, Wis., on Jan. 16, 1923. He graduated in 1931 from the University of Notre Dame with a bachelors degree. Survivors include a brother, Brother Roderic CSC, of Notre Dame; and a sister, Sister Florian SSJ, of Nazareth, Mich.

Friends may call after 2 p.m. Sunday in the Holy Cross Brothers Center. A celebrated mass will be in the Chapel of St. Joseph at the center at 3:30 p.m. Monday, with burial in St. Joseph Cemetery on the campus of Holy Cross Junior College.