Submitted by: Dan Rich

Brother Nicholas Ochs CSC

Mar. 2, 1880 – Mar. 28, 1955

South Bend Tribune 3/29/1955

Brother Nicholas Ochs CSC, 75, a member of the Holy Cross Community at the University of Notre dame, died Monday in Rome, Italy, where he had taught the last two years in the Notre Dame International School for Boys, He underwent surgery there two weeks ago. Word reached the university by cablegram Monday night.

The Office of the Dead will be recited at 5 p.m. today in Sacred Heart Church on the campus, and the Solemn Requiem Mass will be said there at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. Burial will take place in Rome Wednesday morning.

Brother Nicholas was born in Fremont, Ohio, March 2, 1880, as George Ochs. He entered the Community March 6, 1906. He studied at Notre Dame for two years and then went to Central Catholic High School in Fort Wayne as a teacher. Attending summer schools at Notre Dame he earned his bachelor of arts degree in 1928. Meanwhile he taught in Holy Cross High School in New Orleans from 1919 to 1928. In that year he transferred to Sacred Heart College in Watertown, Wis., where he taught until 1934. From then until 1944 he taught in St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas, and was a master of the novices at the St. Joseph Novitiate in Rolling Prairie until 1950. At that year he returned to Texas where he remained until two years ago when he went to Rome. He principally taught German, Latin and music.