Submitted by: Dan Rich

Brother Basil Thomas CSC

Sept. 9, 1927 – June 7, 1983

South Bend Tribune 6/8/1983

A funeral mass for Brother Basil Thomas CSC, 55, of Holy Cross Brothers Center, who died at 10:27 a.m. Tuesday in St. Joseph Medical Center, South Bend, from injuries received Saturday night in a bicycle-car accident, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Brothers Chapel at the Holy Cross Brothers Center.Burial will be in St. Joseph Cemetery at the Brothers Center. Friends may call after 3 p.m. Saturday at the Center where a wake will be in the Chapel at 7:30 p.m.

He was riding a bicycle southbound on Juniper when he was struck by a car near Juniper and Pendle, just north of the University of Notre Dame, about 7:30 p.m. Saturday. He was born Sept. 9, 1927 in Wellesville NY, and entered the Congregation of Holy Cross on Feb. 1, 1947 at Valatie NY. He made his final profession of vows on Aug. 16, 1952. He spent 1948 and 1949 at St. Charles Boys School in Milwaukee. After two years at the Ave Maria Press at Notre Dame, he spent the next 16 years on the staff of Gilmour Academy in Gates Mills, Ohio. His next assignment was at LeMans Academy near Rolling Prairie, where he served for 12 years. At the time of his death he was a pastoral minister at St. Casmir’s Catholic Church, South Bend.