Submitted by: Dan Rich
South Bend Tribune 10/4/1961
Rev. George Francis Horwath CSC, 77,
died in St. Joseph Hospital Albuquerque, N.M. He had been in poor
health and had lived there in retirement for many years. Born in
South Bend Feb. 17, 1884, he began his studies for the priesthood
in Holy Cross Seminary at Notre Dame on Sept. 4, 1898; entered
the novitiate July 4, 1903, and made his final profession July 4,
1905. He was ordained priest June 26, 1908.
He has been mostly engaged in parochial and
chaplain work. His survivors include two brothers, Frank G. of
South Bend and Bernard Howath, of San Francisco, Calif. The body
will be brought back to Notre Dame for funeral Services.
South Bend Tribune 10/5/1961
The Office of the Dead will be recited at 5
p.m. today in Sacred Heart Church on the University of Notre Dame
campus for Rev. George Francis Horwath CSC, 77, who died
in Albuquerque, N. M. Monday. Friends may call in the Corby Hall
Chapel after 7 p.m. today. The requiem mass will be chanted at
8:30 Friday in Sacred Heart Church. Burial will be in Community
Cemetery at Notre Dame