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OBITUARIES

IN MEMORIAM

Notification of the deaths of the following Old Ratcliffians and associates have
been received since the last edition of the Old Ratcliffian:

John Reid (56) George Morgan (13) Anthony Hudson (46)
Michael Keogh (46) Kevin Hand (69) John Doyle (62)
John Campbell (41) Andrew Harris (60) Gerard McSweeney (44)
Roger Brown (52) Fr Peter Reynolds (53) Edward Curran (44)
Bernard Sabels (80) Fr Keith Tomlinson (52) John Whitelaw (66)
Rachel Baxter (82) Michael O’Hanlon (47) Donald Ranvaud (71)
John Simpson (53) Hugh Moser (49) Christopher Padbury (53)
Fr Joseph Mullen Fr John Doman Peter Nelson

REQUIESCAT IN PACE

Friends and relatives are invited to write an obituary for the next
edition of this magazine if it is not included in this one.

FR PETER REYNOLDS IC

OLD RATCLIFFIAN 1947 - 1953
1935 - 2016
Soon after his ordination in 1962, Fr Peter was sent to teach in Africa and then, in 1968,
he came to Ratcliffe for two years, although teaching was not his strength. In many
ways, being a parish priest was not either (he did this, over the years, at St Patrick’s in
Newport, Dollis Hill and Bexhill). He was not a man to tell others what to do, nor was he
one for administration, but he was an ideal member of a parish community in the largest
sense of the word. He had an enormous capacity for pastoral care, for loving and being
concerned for all the people of the parish. This included his position as a chaplain in the
schools, such as St Peter’s.

People lightly talk of how Fr ‘So and So’ was wonderful at visiting the sick and
housebound; Peter did this in spades, and in no way did he regard it as a task, but rather
as a joy, and this showed all too clearly to those whom he ministered. His last years at St
Peter’s, without any responsibilities and before his illness, were probably the happiest
of his religious life.

For the last nine years of his life, Peter suffered from ill health. For the last seven years,
he was lovingly looked after by the sisters and staff of Nazareth House.

Br Nigel Cave (72)

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