Br. Honorius Bernard

Joseph Andrew Talle was born the first son of Andrew Louis and Mary Elizabeth Duffy Talle, in Kansas City, Missouri, on April 27, 1918. He was the second of five children, four of whom entered religious life. Joe attended Blessed Sacrament grammar school and De La Salle Academy in Kansas City. He entered the Juniorate in 1933 and upon completion entered the Novitiate on August 30, 1935, where he received the habit of the Brothers and the religious name of Brother Honorius Bernard. He completed his bachelor's degree in English at St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota, in 1939 and was assigned to teach at De La Salle High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He taught the following year at St. Mel High School in Chicago, Illinois. A year later, in 1941, he was assigned to Boys Town in Omaha, Nebraska. In 1944 "Bernie" was assigned to St. George High School in Evanston, Illinois. From 1949 to 1966, Bernie taught at De La Salle High School, Kansas City, Missouri; Central Catholic High School, Vincennes, Indiana; La Salle Institute, Glencoe, Missouri; Christian Brothers High School, Quincy, Illinois; and Christian Brothers High School, St. Joseph, Missouri. He moved to the east coast in 1966 and taught at Christian Brothers Academy in Lincroft, New Jersey, and La Salle Academy in New York City for the next four years. From 1970 to 1980 he taught in the public school system in the state of New York. For the next fifteen years he worked in counseling in schools of the New York District and for the Archdio­cese of New York. Bernie returned to the Midwest District in 1994 when he retired and when his health required full-time care, he moved to De La Salle Hall in Lincroft, New Jersey. He died there of a stroke on September 19, 2004. His cremated remains were placed in the Calvary Grotto at La Salle Institute in Glencoe, Missouri. He died at age eighty-six and had been a De La Salle Christian Brother for sixty-nine years.