Bro. Leo Wilfrid

Joseph Francis Seiler was the son of Peter and Clara (Kiefer) Seiler, born on October 14, 1921. He attended Brothers schools in Chicago until he entered the Novitiate in 1939 in Glencoe, Missouri. There he received the habit of the Brothers in August of 1940 and the religious name of Brother Leo Wilfrid. Brother Leo earned his BA from St. Mary’s College in Winona, Minnesota, in 1943. In 1953 he earned his MA from St. Louis University. Leo’s first teaching assignment took him to Boystown, Nebraska for a year (1943-1944). The following year he was assigned to St. Mel High School in Chicago, Illinois where he spent two years before returning to Glencoe to teach in the Juniorate Program. He remained there seven years before moving to teach at St. George High School in Evanston, Illinois for a year. The following year, 1954, Leo moved to Christian Brother High School in St. Joseph, Missouri and taught there for two years before returning for a second time to La Salle Institute to teach in the Juniorate. In 1956 Leo was assigned to CBHS in St. Joseph again where he spent the next eight years. In 1964 he moved to St. Francis High School in Wheaton, Illinois and spent seven years teaching there before moving to Driscoll High School in Addison, Illinois. In 1973 Leo was transferred to Montini Catholic High School in Lombard, Illinois and taught there for the next twenty-six years until he retired in 1999. That same year he returned to the Driscoll Community as Director and as a “retired volunteer.” After ten years at Driscoll he accepted the position of Director of the Westmont South Community in Westmont, Illinois. In 2013 health issues forced him to move to Resurrection Life Center in Chicago, Illinois, where he died on January 29, 2014, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for seventy-four years.