Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Rev. George MacInnes CSC

Apr. 5, 1933 – Aug. 9, 1988

 

South Bend Tribune 8/10/1988

Memorial services for Rev. George MacInnes CSC, 55, of Nairobi, Kenya, who died in Naitobi  Sunday, will be at 5:05 p.m. Friday in Corby Hall Chapel, University of Notre Dame. Services and burial will be held Saturday in Holy Cross Catholic Church, Nairobi.

 

Rev. MacInnes was born April 5, 1933 in Cleveland. He made his first profession in the Congregation of Holy Cross on Aug. 16, 1952, and was ordained to the priesthood on June 8, 1960. After his ordination he served in Uganda, East Africa from 1960 to 1980, except for a sabbatical leave to the University of Minnesota where he received a masters degree in anthropology. In 1982 he returned to Nariobi where he taught and served in parish work.