Br. Honorius Edward

James  Vincent Duffy was born the son of Stephen and Mary Halfpenny Duffy on  February 5, 1905, in Chicago, Illinois.   He attended De La Salle Institute and it was from there that he  entered the Juniorate in Glencoe, Missouri, in 1920.  He graduated to the Novitiate and on August  31, 1923, received the habit and religious name of Brother Honorius  Edward.  Upon completing his academic  studies, he was assigned to teach at De La Salle High School in Kansas City,  Missouri from 1929 to 1933, and again later in his career in 1943-1949.  His tour of duty as a classroom teacher  took him to Cathedral High School in Duluth, Minnesota, 1933-34; La Salle  Institute, Glencoe, Missouri, 1934-35; De La Salle Institute, Chicago,  Illinois, 1935-39; St. Mary's College, Winona, Minnesota, 1939-1943; St.  George High School in Evanston, Illinois, 1949-50 and again 1954-61; and  Price College in Amarillo, Texas, 1950-54.   His legendary talents as a handyman helped him in his assignments to  the Mobile Unit for the District, 1961-66; Lewis College, Romeoville,  Illinois, 1966-67; and at Christian Brothers National Office and C.B. Center,  1967-94.  He entered St. Patrick  Residence in Naperville, Illinois, in 1994 and died there on the 75th  anniversary of the day he left his home in Chicago to enter the Juniorate.  Brother "Hon  Ed", as he was affectionately called, was  ninety years of age at the time of his death, having been a De La Salle  Christian Brother for seventy-five years.