Submitted by: Dan Rich

Brother Owen Lynch CSC

Aug. 6, 1893 – Jan 19, 1970

South Bend Tribune 7/20/1970

Brother Owen Lynch CSC, 76, a former teacher at St. Joseph High School, died Sunday in Dujarie House at Notre Dame after a six-week illness. He was born Joseph Lynch, Aug. 6, 1893 in Kalamazoo. He made his first vows Jan. 6, 1916, and his final vows Jan. 10, 1919. He received his undergraduate degree from Notre Dame in 1924.

Brother Owen had been superior at various high schools conducted by the Brothers of Holy Cross. He was a teacher and principal at Central Catholic High School , Fort Wayne, at various times; superior at Sacred Heart Postulate, Watertown, Wis.; principal at Holy Cross High School, New Orleans, La.; principal at Msgr. Coyle High School, Tauton, Mass. He also taught at Holy Trinity High School, Chicago; Archbishop Hoban High School, Akron, Ohio; Notre Dame High School, Sherman Oaks, Calif.; and Notre Dame High School, West Haven, Conn. His last assignment before retiring was at St. Joseph High School here. He is survived by his sister, Mrs. Thomas Welch, and a niece, Mrs. John H. Daly, of Kalamazoo.

Services will be at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Holy Cross Brothers’ Center Chapel. Burial will be in St. Joseph Cemetery, Notre Dame. Friends may call at Holy Cross Brothers’  Center after 3:30 p.m. today.