Submitted by: Dan Rich

Brother Walter E. Duda CSC

Jan. 6, 1923 -- June 25, 2003

South Bend Tribune 6/28/2003                                      

Brother Walter Edward Duda, CSC, 80, died on Wednesday, June 25 at the Helen D. Schubert Villa, Holy Cross Village, Notre Dame, Ind., after a long illness. He was born Jan. 6, 1923, in Chicago, Ill., the son of Peter and Katherine (Gorcowska) Duda. One of six children, he is survived by two brothers, Henry and Joseph; two sisters, Cecelia Civignani and Elizabeth Luckow, and several nieces and nephews.

Brother Walter attended St. John Cantius elementary school and Wells Senior High School in Chicago. From 1941 to 1945, he served in the United State Army and after his discharge he worked for six years as an artist-revamper in Chicago. He entered the aspirancy program of the Brother of Holy Cross in Watertown, Wis., and began his novice training at St. Joseph Novitiate, Rolling Prairie, Ind., Aug. 15, 1955. He made his first profession of vows as a Brother of Holy Cross on Aug. 16, 1956, and his perpetual profession of vows on Aug. 16, 1959. From 1956 to 1959, Brother Walter worked in maintenance and grounds keeping at Dujarie Scholasticate (Carroll Hall) and the Community Infirmary (Holy Cross House) on the Notre Dame campus. The following year he was assigned as a staff member of Sacred Heart Military Academy, Watertown. In 1960, he worked for eight years as a canvasser for the Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame. After a year as a staff member at Columba Hall, Notre Dame, Brother Walter served as a clerk in the Notre Dame Post Office in 1969 and at the St. Mary's Post office in 1972. In 1974 he was staff member at Holy Cross High School, River Grove, ill., where he worked in maintenance and grounds keeping. He retired in 1995 and continued living with the Brothers' community in Rover Grove where he generously provided assistance in maintaining the house and grounds until deteriorating health required him to take up residence at the Helen D. Schubert Villa, Notre Dame, in June of this year.

Visitation will begin at 2 p.m. today, June 28 in the St. Joseph Chapel, Holy Cross Village, 54515 State Road 933 North. A Mass of the Resurrection will follow at 3 p.m. with burial immediately afterwards in St. Joseph's Cemetery on the village grounds.