Fr Michael O’Connor, was called to the Lord on Saturday 25 October at 18.50; Canon Michael Loughlin was present when he died. Fr Michael’s parents, Daniel and Annie from Co Cork and Westmeath respectively, had five children, all of whom have predeceased him,...
Rev Fr Peter Coleman came into our lives in the late 60s/early 70s, serving as curate at St George’s Church, York. He came at a difficult time for us as we had just lost one of our brothers at a tender age of 14 years to leukaemia. Through Peter’s...
When I arrived back from my holidays in Ireland last Friday, the first news I received was of Peter’s death. I was stunned at how quickly he had left us – and no opportunity to say ‘farewell’. The week before my holidays I rang Peter to make...
An obituary by Fr Noel Wynne, SM Rev Tony Skillen was born and brought up in South Bank where his father was a well-known and much-loved Head of St Peter’s School. After primary school, Tony entered St Mary’s College, Middlesbrough in 1952 and made such...
On Monday 25 August 2008 at 2.35 am in the Convent of St Joseph, Whitby Father Peter Coleman returned to the Lord. May he rest in peace. Fr Peter, the sixth of Dolly and John Coleman’s eight children (five boys and three girls) was born on 16 June 1938, the...
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