Br. Louis Stanislaus

Joseph Brostowski was born on November 20, 1941, in Chicago, the son of Joseph and Viola Chiappa Brostowski. He attended St. Patrick High School in Chicago and entered the Juniorate on January 28, 1956, entered the Novitiate in June of 1959 where he received the habit and religious name of Brother Louis Stanislaus. He completed his Scholasticate at St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota, in 1963 and was assigned to teach at De la Salle High School in Kansas City, Missouri, until he was transferred in 1966 to Carroll High School in Wichita, Kansas. He returned to De La Salle in Kansas City from 1967 to 1969 when he began a year of graduate work at the Christian Brothers House of Studies in St. Louis, Missouri. He died at University Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, of a blood clot in the lungs, as a result of the automobile crash on October 30, 1969 near Auburn, Nebraska, which also killed Brothers David Darst and John George Simon. Brother Stan was twenty-eight years old and had been a De La Salle Christian Brother for thirteen years.