Father George William Roche was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, July 16, 1896. He received his primary studies in public school, then high school studies at St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Columbus, Ohio. Moved by the Holy Spirit he spurned the call of the world, he took the habit of the Order in the Convent of St. Joseph, Somerset, Ohio. Next, assigned to the Convent of St. Rose, Springfield, Kentucky, he undertook his first year of philosophy. The second and third, and theological studies were in the Convent of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D.C. He received the priesthood in our church of St. Dominic, Washington, DC, on June 4, 1926. Father Roach functioned splendidly both in our parishes and our schools. He undertook the care of souls in Minneapolis, Houston, New Orleans and Denver. For five years he served as chaplain of the sisters in Rosaryville, Louisiana. Lovingly and with great praise and with great fruit he taught philosophy both to religious sisters and to seculars. In the middle of the night, April 13, 1955 he died alone in our house of St. Dominic's, Denver, Colorado. He lived without conflict and died peacefully in the Lord.

Father Roach by his sharp and exceptional mind charmingly reduced theological and especially moral problems to their simpler elements and easily induced solutions. By his sweet nature and easily moved heart he dealt gently with human fragility, and he calmly strengthened and supported his penitents against the dangers and burdens of this world. Enlightened by philosophy and theology, well-disposed for hearing confessions, he offered his service tirelessly and abundantly for both religious and laypeople.