Brother Thomas Lawless DeSales C.F.X.

LAWLESS, (THOMAS) BROTHER DESALES, C.F.X., 87, of Louisville, passed away Friday, February 29, 2008 at the Hosparus Inpatient Unit. Brother DeSales entered the Xaverian Brothers, September 19, 1939 and professed on September 19, 1944. He graduated from St. Xavier High School in Louisville in 1938; received a Bachelor of Science from Catholic University in 1945; received a Master of Science from St. John's University in New York in 1950; a PhD in Science History from New York University in 1966 and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from New York University in 1969. He was a teacher at St. Michael's High School, Brooklyn, NY, from 1945-50; the director of residents at Mt. St. Joseph's High School, Baltimore, MD, from 1950-56; director of St. Joseph's Prep, Bardstown, Kentucky from 1956-62; teacher at Xaverian High School in Brooklyn, New York from 1962-68; associate professor of biochemistry at Fordham University, New York from 1969-2003; researcher at Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Institute, NY, from 1969-75; researcher and adjunct faculty member in Immunology at Rockefeller University, New York from 1976-2003; retiree at Ryken House, Louisville, Kentucky from 2003-07; and resident at Green Meadows Nursing Home, Mount Washington, KY from 2007-2008. He also spent his summers doing research at Oak Ridge National Lab, Argonne National Lab, Bethesda Naval Hospital, Air Force National Lab, and NASA at the Johnson Space Center and Ames Research Center, as well as Stanford University. Brother DeSales was preceded in death by his brothers, James and John; and his sister, Kathleen, Sister Mary Kyran Lawless, R.S.M. Survivors include his sister-in-law, Betty Lee Lawless; many nieces and nephews; and his Xaverian Brothers. His funeral Mass will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in the Chapel of St. Xavier High School where visitation will be held on Monday from 3 5 and 6 8 p.m. Burial will follow the Mass in Calvary Cemetery. Arrangements entrusted to Ratterman & Sons Funeral Home, Bardstown Road. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Xavier High School Scholarship Fund or Hosparus of Louisville.