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Br Hector Cyprian (Joseph) Fraser

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Br Hector Cyprian (Joseph) Fraser

Birth
Bourbonnais, Kankakee County, Illinois, USA
Death
23 Dec 1950 (aged 77)
Washington, Franklin County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Wildwood, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
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Brother Hector Cyprian (Joseph Fraser) was born in Bourbonnais, Illinois, and entered the Novitiate in 1894 in Glencoe, Missouri. He died on December 23, 1950, in Glencoe, Missouri, at the age of 78 and is buried in Glencoe.

Born on August 25, 1873, near Chicago at Bourbonnais, Illinois, Joseph Fraser, was one of fourteen children. At age twenty-one he had already developed outstanding talents in steam fitting, carpentry, plumbing and electricity; he entered the Novitiate at Glencoe on August 30, 1894. He received the habit on December 7th and the religious name of Brother Hector Cyprian. His tour of duty includes: Feehanville, Illinois; Bernalillo, New Mexico; Gray Horse Indian School in Oklahoma; Memphis, Tennessee; Chicago, Illinois; and Winona, Minnesota. From 1911 to 1913 he assisted in the Direction of St. John's School for the Osage Indians. He was a skilled carpenter and much of his skill and energy are enshrined in Glencoe in the west wing Baldwin Memorial Hall and east wing Holy Family residence. Brother Cyprian was in the founding community at St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota. One of his brothers became a priest and two of his sisters became Sisters of St. Joseph. Brother Cyprian died at age seventy-eight, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for fifty-seven years.

Contributor: Brother Robert Werle FSC (51190022)
Brother Hector Cyprian (Joseph Fraser) was born in Bourbonnais, Illinois, and entered the Novitiate in 1894 in Glencoe, Missouri. He died on December 23, 1950, in Glencoe, Missouri, at the age of 78 and is buried in Glencoe.

Born on August 25, 1873, near Chicago at Bourbonnais, Illinois, Joseph Fraser, was one of fourteen children. At age twenty-one he had already developed outstanding talents in steam fitting, carpentry, plumbing and electricity; he entered the Novitiate at Glencoe on August 30, 1894. He received the habit on December 7th and the religious name of Brother Hector Cyprian. His tour of duty includes: Feehanville, Illinois; Bernalillo, New Mexico; Gray Horse Indian School in Oklahoma; Memphis, Tennessee; Chicago, Illinois; and Winona, Minnesota. From 1911 to 1913 he assisted in the Direction of St. John's School for the Osage Indians. He was a skilled carpenter and much of his skill and energy are enshrined in Glencoe in the west wing Baldwin Memorial Hall and east wing Holy Family residence. Brother Cyprian was in the founding community at St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota. One of his brothers became a priest and two of his sisters became Sisters of St. Joseph. Brother Cyprian died at age seventy-eight, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for fifty-seven years.

Contributor: Brother Robert Werle FSC (51190022)

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