Submitted by: Dan Rich

Rev. Elmer G. Gross CSC

Mar. 13, 1914 – Mar. 25, 1985

South Bend Tribune 3/26/1985

Rev. Elmer G. Gross CSC, 71, of Holy Cross House, Notre Dame, died Monday afternoon at Holy Cross House. He was born March 13, 1914 in Memomonee Falls, Wis., and entered the Congregation of Holy Cross July 1, 1931. He made his first profession of vows July 2, 1932, and his final profession Aug. 16, 1935. A 1936 graduate of Notre Dame, he studied theology at Holy Cross College, Washington DC, and was ordained to the priesthood in Sacred Heart Church, Notre Dame in 1940. He was first assigned to parish work at St. Bernard’s in Watertown, Wis. serving there from 1940 to 1943. The following three years he served as chaplain at Sacred Heart School in Watertown, and from 1946 to 1948 he returned to Notre Dame as a member of the faculty. He was then assigned to Santiago, Chile, where he served for 16 years. He also served in Austin, Texas as assistant pastor from 1964 to 1978 at Doloate Church, and in 1978 of St. Mary’s Cathedral. He was later assigned to Sacred Heart Church in New Orleans from 1979 to 1982; and returned to Texas in 1982 to St. Joseph Church in Kileen, Texas; and from 1983 to 1985 at San Jose Church in Austin.

A wake service will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Chapel of Moreau Seminary at Notre Dame, where a funeral mass will be at 11:30 a.m. The body will be sent to San Jose Church, Austin, Texas, where a wake service will be at 8 p.m. Friday, with a funeral mass at 11 a.m. Saturday. Burial will follow in Assumption Cemetery in Austin.