Anthony Dominic Denier, the youngest of the three sons of E. Jessie (nee Wilson) and Michael Denier, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on March 26, 1912. At an early age his father was left with sole responsibility for the three boys and, when his father could no longer provide for them, they were placed in St. Joseph's Orphanage, Cincinnati, where Anthony was baptized Cecil Anthony. He remained at the orphanage until approximately fourteen years of age when he and his two brothers were placed in the home of a Mrs. Metz. He attended Grammar School at the orphanage and then for three years attended Ohio Mechanic's Institute in Cincinnati. For several years he worked at various jobs as a machinist, a gardener and a painter, and in January of 1937 he began his postulancy as a cooperator brother at St. Thomas Aquinas Priory, River Forest, Illinois, where he was given the religious name of Henry.

After completing his postulancy and his novitiate, Brother Henry made his first profession on July 25, 1938 at St. Thomas Aquinas Priory where he remained until the new Province of St. Albert the Great was formed on December 22, 1939. To fulfill the

requirement for a Province to have three priories, St. Anthony of Padua House, New Orleans, Louisiana, was made a priory and Brother Henry was sent to do maintenance work and serve as sacristan for the parish. In 1942 Brother Henry was re-assigned to St. Thomas Aquinas Priory, River Forest, where he remained for a year before moving on to St. Dominic Priory, Oak Park, Illinois. He served the community as porter, worked in the laundry and did maintenance work. It was there that he made his solemn profession on November 29, 1944. In 1950 he moved to Holy Name House, Kansas City, Missouri, where he did maintenance work for the house and the parish.

In 1955 he was re-assigned to St. Dominic Priory, Oak Park, Illinois, where he resumed his previous ministries. When in 1972 St. Dominic Priory was closed and the community moved to St. Thomas Aquinas Priory, Brother Henry returned to the house where he had begun his religious life and where for the next twenty-four years, he was to do maintenance work, be house sacristan, and serve as a one-man security force. In 1996 he requested a transfer to St. Dominic Priory, Denver, Colorado, where he began his years of limited service.

Health problems began to plague Brother Henry in 2001 when he underwent quintuple bypass surgery in March. In August of that year it was necessary to amputate one leg. His physical condition required his transfer to Chicago where he first resided at Resurrection Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Park Ridge, Illinois, and then to Resurrection Life Center., Chicago. His condition worsened and early on the morning of April 27, 2004, he died at Resurrection Hospital in Chicago. His funeral liturgy was celebrated at St. Pius V Church, Chicago, Illinois, and burial followed immediately in the Dominican plot at All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois.