Brother Edward William Libbers, CSC

Brother Edward William Libbers, CSC

April 19, 1940 – January 30, 2025

Brother Edward William Libbers, CSC, 84, died on January 30, 2025 at Dujarié House Skilled Nursing, Holy Cross Village, Notre Dame, IN. A member of the Midwest Province of the Brothers of Holy Cross, he was one of four children born to Herman Libbers and Lillian (Schrader) Libbers in Lafayette, IN. Brother Edward attended both St. Boniface Elementary School, first through fifth grade, and St. Lawrence Elementary School sixth through eighth grade in Lafayette. He graduated as salutatorian, the second out of twenty-nine students of the first graduating class of Central Catholic High School in Lafayette. After graduation, he attended Purdue University in West Lafayette for one year and joined the Congregation of Holy Cross after his freshman year. Brother Edward made perpetual profession in 1966. He studied at the University of Notre Dame majoring in chemistry and received a BS in 1963 and an MS in 1970. He spent a total of fifty-three years in high school classrooms: forty-five at Archbishop Hoban High School in Akron, OH, and eight years in three other Holy Cross High Schools: St. Joseph, South Bend, IN, Holy Cross, River Grove, IL and Holy Cross, San Antonio, TX. He retired from teaching in 2016, and in 2017 began volunteer work at Regina Health Care Nursing Home in Richfield, OH. He fully retired in 2020 in Akron and in 2024 came to Dujarié House Skilled Nursing.

Brother Edward is preceded in death by his parents, his older sister Margaret (Wichorek) and his younger brother Thomas. He is survived by his sister-in-law Kim (Needham) Libbers and her three children: Kameron, Adam and Allyn and seven grandchildren. He is also survived by his younger brother William and wife Sharon and their three children Billy, Marjorie and Jennifer and five grandchildren and four great grandchildren. On his mother’s side, he is survived by his cousins John, Kathy and Joe Schrader and Linda, Sandra, Mike and Anna Schrader.

Visitation will be held on Thursday, February 6, 2025 at St. Joseph Chapel, Holy Cross College at 9:00 AM. The Mass of Resurrection will follow at 10:00 AM with interment afterward in St. Joseph’s Cemetery at Holy Cross Village. Memorial contributions in honor of Brother Edward may be sent to the Brother Joseph Lebon and Brother Edward Libbers Memorial Scholarship, Archbishop Hoban High School, One Holy Cross Boulevard, Akron, OH 44306-1500. Kaniewski Funeral Home is handling the arrangements. The funeral will be live-streamed at https://http://bit.ly/40UP9wS.

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