Br. Hermes George

Ronald  Edward Wagner was born the son of John George and Mary Marks Wagner, on  August 20, 1933, in Chicago, Illinois.   When he was old enough he enrolled in   St. Patrick Academy at Adams and Desplaines in Chicago.  Upon graduation he entered the Novitiate on  June 15, 1951 in Glencoe, Missouri, where he received the habit and the  religious name of Brother Hermes George.   He completed his scholastic training with a B.A. degree at St. Mary's  College in Winona, Minnesota, in 1956 and was assigned to teach at St. Mel  High School in Chicago.  Brother George  remained there for ten years, teaching Religion, English, Math and  Music.  He employed these same skills  in 1966 when he was assigned to St. Joseph High School in Westchester,  Illinois.  He died unexpectedly there  at age forty-eight of a sudden heart attack, having been a De La Salle  Christian Brother for thirty years.