Br. Lawrence Bernard

Donald George Richard was born the son of George and Helen (House) Richard in Argonne, Wisconsin. The family later moved to Michigan where he graduated from Escanaba High School. That same year he entered the Novitiate at Glencoe, Missouri and made his first profession of vows in 1954. His early teaching career took him to St. George High School in Evanston, Illinois where for the next eleven years he taught and partially taught at Collegio De La Salle in Chile. In 1967 he was transferred to Driscoll High School where he spent two years before heading south to St. Paul High School in Covington, Louisiana. In 1971 he returned to St. Joseph’s where he spent the next six years. In 1977 he was assigned to Liceo La Salle in Chiquimula, Guatemala. Nine years later he joined the formation team at the postulancy program in Bogota, Columbia. He was assigned to Campus Ministry in 1989 at De La Salle in Santiago, Chile but after two years in that assignment he was assigned to the Midwest District Office of Development. Brother Bernard Richard retired in 2002 and lived in several of the Chicago Brother Communities until he entered Resurrection Life Center in 2012. He died on the morning of September 4, 2013 and requested his cremated ashes be interred at Calvary Cemetery in Glencoe where he first entered the Brothers. He was survived by five of his sisters and at the time of his death he had been a De La Salle Christian Brother for sixty years.