On January 28,1950, in Hancock, Michigan, David Paul Frusti was born to Paul Emil and Bertha Ylinen Frusti,the first of their five sons. In February, he was baptized into the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church of his parents. He attended grammar school and junior high in the Livonia public school system in Westland, Michigan, then Franklin High School in Livonia, Michigan.

In 1968 he began studies at Monteith College at Wayne State University in Detroit, majoring in philosophy and with some emphasis on business administration and social sciences. During this time he also worked as a switchboard operator and secretary for the University. In 1975, he obtained a Ph.B. David then moved on to Cambridge (Boston), Massachusetts where he was employed as supervisor of the information center at Harvard University from August, 1973 until June, 1980.

Always involved in church activities -- leader of a youth group, choir member, financial assistant, counselor/cook at a church-sponsored underprivileged youth camp, Sunday school teacher, acolyte -- he had seriously considered the Lutheran ministry as early as high school. Later, he was introduced to a Swedish Lutheran monk, director of St. Augustine's Retreat House in Oxford, Michigan, which had been established to promote ecumenical dialogue between faiths; from 1971 to 1978, David was a member of the St. Augustine's fellowship, struggling for direction in his life.

In 1972, he realized that he wanted to become a member of the Roman Catholic Church, but hesitated because of the pain he might cause his parents. On Trinity Sunday, May 25,1975, David was accepted into the Catholic Church at St. Clement's Student Parish in Boston.

From 1974 to 1978, David was an active member of Dignity, seeing it as "a chance to minister to other Christians," and working as spiritual development chairman, social action chairman, and from 1977 to 1978 as director of the New England Region.

In an effort to increase his experience in the business world, David moved to Santa Monica, California, to work as production manager in a mail service and print shop from 1980 to 1982. Feeling this was not to be his career and given family needs, he returned to the Midwest in 1983 and settled in Chicago, working at odd jobs until his future in religious life could be decided. Over a period of twenty years and after meeting many religious, David came to appreciate St. Dominic, the preaching apostolate of the Dominican Order,

and his own need for community life. Hence, in March of 1983, at the age of thirty-three, he applied for admission to the Dominican Order.

After completing his novitiate year in Denver, Brother David made first profession on August 19, 1984, then moved to St. Dominic Priory in St. Louis, Missouri, for theological studies at Aquinas Institute of Theology. In 1986, in addition to work on his theological degree, David undertook studies at St. Louis University to achieve a Master of Social Work. However, given ill health he was forced to withdraw from the latter program in the summer of 1987.

When David's health did not improve, testing resulted in a diagnosis of AIDS. As his health continued to decline, he was forced to desist from all study and moved to St. Pius V Priory in Chicago, Illinois. There he began a ministry to other AIDS patients and their families and travelled throughout the Province in an effort to educate others about this ministry.

David spent the greater part of 1991 at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago. He died there on August 1, 1991. Following the celebration of a Mass of Christian Burial at St. Pius V Church in Chicago he was buried in the Dominican plot at All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois, on Saturday, August 3,1991.