Br. Linus Paul

Douglas  Andrew French was born on July 25, 1932, the son of Lorenzo and Agnes  French.  After completing his  undergraduate degree at St. Mary’s College in Winona his first teaching  assignment took him in 1955 to St. George High School in Evanston,  Illinois.  Brother Linus Paul spent  only two years there before being transferred to St. Mel High School in  Chicago where he spent the next six years.   In 1963 he was assigned to Lewis University.  He spent a semester at Sangre de Cristo in  1971 but returned to Lewis where he remained until 1980.  He traveled overseas where he spent two  years teaching at Bethlehem University in Palestine.  Brother Paul returned to Lewis University  in 1982 where he spent the remainder of his teaching career.  He retired to the Benilde Community in  Chicago in 2003 and to Resurrection Retirement Community in Chicago in  2010.  He died on December 10, 2015, at  Presence Resurrection Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, and is buried in  Resurrection Cemetery in Romeoville, Illinois.  At the time of his death, he had been a De  La Salle Christian Brother for sixty-four years.