Brother Camillus Anthony (Francis Gremillion)

Brother Camillus Anthony, known as Francis Gremillion at the time of his birth, died in 1987 at age 69 in Covington, Louisiana, of complications due to a head injury he sustained about ten days earlier. He was born on May 12, 1912, in Plaucheville, Louisiana, and entered the junior novitiate at De La Salle in Lafayette, Louisiana, in 1930. He received the brother’s robe in the novitiate there on August 14, 1931. A year later he was sent to study in the scholasticate at Sacred Heart Training College in Las Vegas, New Mexico. He was sent to teach at Hanson Memorial High School in Franklin, Louisiana, in April 1935, Kirwin High School in Galveston, Texas, that September, and the junior novitiate at De La Salle in Lafayette in 1939. He was sent to teach at Cathedral High School in Lafayette in January 1942 and to Mullen Home for Boys in Fort Logan, Colorado, that August. He taught at Landry Memorial High School in Lake Charles, Louisiana, 1946-1950, and was principal of St. Michael’s High School in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1950-1952. He then taught at Cathedral High School in El Paso, Texas, 1952-1954, St. Paul’s High School in Covington, Louisiana, 1954-1957, at De La Salle High School in New Orleans, Louisiana,