Siegfried, business leader and member of National Review Board, dies

Published: 2005-10-11

TULSA, Okla. (CNS) -- Ray H. Siegfried II, a Catholic business leader and philanthropist who was one of the first members of the U.S. bishops' National Review Board on clergy sexual abuse, died in Tulsa Oct. 6 following a four-year struggle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known as Lou Gehrig's disease. He was 62. His funeral Mass was celebrated Oct. 10 at Holy Family Cathedral in Tulsa. His body was then flown to the University of Notre Dame in Indiana for a final Mass at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart Oct. 11 and burial in the university's Cedar Grove Cemetery. Siegfried graduated from Notre Dame in 1965 and was one of the university's biggest benefactors. Notre Dame's president, Holy Cross Father John I. Jenkins, called him "a man whose wisdom, leadership and generosity will be felt on this campus for all time."

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