DEATHS & OBITUARIES
Fr Thomas Lakeland SJ
Fr Kuruvila Cherian SJ
Thomas Lakeland was born in Preston on 2 July 1928 – and died there 82 years later, after 62 years in the Society of Jesus. Educated at Preston Catholic College, he entered the novitiate in Roehampton at the age of 20 and studied philosophy at Heythrop College, Oxfordshire, from 1950 to ’52. After three years’ teaching at St Mary’s Hall, Stonyhurst, he returned to Heythrop for his theological studies, followed by tertianship at St Beuno’s, North Wales. He was ordained priest in July 1958. In 1960, Fr Lakeland was assigned to St Wilfrid’s parish, Preston, and then to St Francis Xavier’s, Liverpool, where he was Superior and parish priest from 1966 to 1977. After two years of directing the Spiritual Exercises at St Beuno’s, he moved to Scotland, working in St Joseph’s parish, Aberdeen, and also supplying at St Margaret’s, Lerwick. Fr Lakeland served at Sacred Heart Church, Wimbledon in1981, and then spent four years in the parish of St Michael and St John, Clitheroe, before being assigned to St Wilfrid’s Church in Preston. His final 24 years were spent there, working in the parish. He died on 5 May 2010 in the Royal Preston Hospital.
Fr Kuruvila Cherian SJ taught in various Jesuit schools in Kerala, India, for three decades, and was Principal of AKJM (Kanjirappally), and later Loyola School (Trivandrum). During his time as Vice-Principal at Loyola, he encouraged student representatives to get involved in decision-making about the school. But he was also perceived among the Loyola staff as a priest who pushed Christ and Christianity. In 1982, Fr Cherian left for the US and successfully completed a two-year Masters programme in School Administration. Although he came back in 1984 to Loyola, he spent much of the late 1980s and 1990s in AKJM. In 1998, he returned to Loyola, this time as Principal. In May 2000, he left Loyola School and joined the Jesuit Refugee Service in Nepal. He served there as the Assistant Project Director of the educational programme, in camps set up for refugees from southern Bhutan, who had been expelled from their country in 1991 for being of Nepalese origin. After a stint in East Africa in the Jesuit Refugee Service, Fr Cherian moved to Guyana, a Region of the British Province in South America. There, among other things, he worked in Berbice on the east coast, at the Human Development Centre, a Jesuit training centre for children, young adults, and women. Fr Cherian died in Guyana on 6 March 2010.
Please pray for those who have died recently. May they rest in peace. Miss Winifred Horan – Sister of Fr Tony
Mr Desmond O’Callaghan – Brother of
Col Richard F N Anderson
Horan SJ
Fr Richard Manners SJ
Mrs Mary Josephine Sudell
Mr Lawrence Mulenga – Brother of
Mrs Pauline Grant Adamson – Niece of Fr
Miss Ann Maria Smulders
Vincent Mulenga SJ
David Harold-Barry SJ
Mr Maurice Brown
Mrs Mairi MacGinn – Aunt of Fr Andrew
Heinrich Mueller - Father of Fr Heribert
Mr O Cook
Cameron-Mowat SJ
Mrs M Parkin
Julia - Grandmother of Toon Cavens SJ
Mr Kingsley da Silva
Mrs Grace Dawson – Mother of Fr Roger
Mr Thomas Dodds
Dawson SJ
Mrs Alice Barton
Mr Charles Church – Brother of Fr
Mr Chris Moss
Aloysius Church SJ
Mrs Philomena Culver Mr Peter Hart
Dr Iorwerth Huw Thomas – Nephew of Fr Fr James Quinn SJ Fr Peter Orr SJ Robert Murray SJ
Mrs Patricia Mary McDermott
Mr Fidelis Mado – Uncle of Fr Hector
Fr Ambrose D'Mello SJ
Prof P Higgins
Mukwato SJ
Fr Thomas Lakeland SJ
Mr P McGovern
Muller SJ Mr Michael Edwards – Province Assistant
for Education Fr Harold Wong SJ Fr Kuruvila Nalpathamkalam SJ
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