Fr. Robert Ochs Writer, teacher Jesuit Father Robert J. Ochs, 88, died May 4. Born in Kansas, he moved to Chicago and finished high school at Loyola Academy, Wilmette. He graduated from Loyola University Chicago in 1951 before entering the Society of Jesus in 1952. He was ordained in 1961 in Innsbruck, Austria, and pronounced final vows in 1972 in Chicago. Father Ochs was best known for his two books “The Death in Every Now” (1969) and “God is More Present Than You Think” (1970), as well as serving as an adjunct professor of theology at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. Father Ochs worked as a researcher and writer from 1981 until he moved to Colombiere Center in December 2017 to care for his health.