He was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, on August 19, 1923, and received his early education in the parochial schools of Detroit, Michigan. There he also made his preparatory studies for entrance into the Order. He received the habit and began his novitiate in June 1943, in the Dominican House of Studies, River Forest, Illinois, which was then the only house of formation in the Province of St. Albert the Great. There he also made profession on June 25, 1944 and was ordained on May 30, 1950.

He was first assigned in the Fall of 1951 as Procurator in the newly established and temporary House of Theology (St. Rose Priory, Dubuque, Iowa), which was formerly the Convent of the Good Shepherd Sisters. On the expiration of his term as Procurator in 1954, he was appointed Procurator in the House of Philosophy, River Forest, and served also as professor of religion and chaplain in Trinity High School in the same village. In the Fall of 1957, he was appointed Master of Cooperator Brothers and Socius to the Master of Novices in the Priory of St. Peter Martyr, Winona, Minnesota. Two years later he was transferred to the Church of the Holy Name, Kansas City, Missouri, where he was assistant in the parish and chaplain of Queen of the World Hospital. In the Fall of 1962 he became Chaplain and instructor of novices and postulants in the Convent and Motherhouse of the Dominican Sisters, Kenosha, Wisconsin, where he served for four years. He was then assigned to Roncalli Central High School of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Aberdeen, South Dakota, as professor of religion. There he died quite suddenly on May 20, 1969. Following the obsequies in the Church of the Priory of St. Peter Martyr, Winona, he was buried in the community cemetery on the grounds of the Priory.