Submitted by: Dan Rich

Rev. Thomas P. Jones CSC

Aug. 18, 1908 – July 15, 1981

South Bend Tribune 7/16/1981

Rev. Thomas P. Jones CSC, 72, of Casa Santa Cruz, Phoenix, Ariz. died early Wednesday in his residence after an  unexpected illness. He was born Aug. 18, 1908 in Anderson, Ind. and entered the Congregation of the Holy Cross on July 1, 1926. He was graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1931, and after completing theological studies at Holy Cross College, Washington, DC, he was ordained to the priesthood at Sacred Heart Church on June 24, 1935. He received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Catholic University in 1961. He served as an Army chaplain from 1944 to 1946, and taught at the University of Notre Dame from 1936 to 1938 and from 1959 to 1965.

From 1938 to 1944 he taught at St. Hedwig University in Texas. From 1946 to 1948 he taught at Kings College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. From 1948 to 1959 he taught at the University of Portland in Oregon. He served as chaplain at Cathedral High School, Indianapolis from 1965 to 1970. From 1970 to 1975 he resided at Holy Cross House, Notre Dame and from 1975 to the present at Casa Santa Cruz, Phoenix. He is survived by a sister, Miss Elizabeth Ann Jones of Indianapolis.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in Sacred Heart Church. Bishop Alfred Mendez of  Texas will officiate and burial will be in Community Cemetery. Friends may call after 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the Moreau Seminary Chapel, where a wake service will be conducted at 7:30 p.m.