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Deaths

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31 March 2023

LIGHTOWLER. — On 21 March, the Revd Joseph Trevor Lightowler: Assistant Curate of Woodmansterne (1984-88); Rector of Odell and Pavenham (1988-97); aged 90.

NIND. — On 20 March, the Revd Robert William Hampden Nind: Assistant Curate of Spalding (1956-60): Vere, Jamaica (1960-63); Rector (1963-67); Curate-in-Charge of St Bartholomew’s, Battersea (1967-70); Commissary of British Honduras (1967-73); Belarus (1973-77); Jamaica (1970-77); Vicar of St Matthew’s, Brixton (1970-82); Southwark Diocesan Industrial Chaplain (1984-89); Oxford Diocesan Industrial Chaplain (1989-95); aged 91.

SUTCLIFFE. — On 15 March, the Revd John Leslie Sutcliffe: Curate-in-Charge of St Leonard’s Conventional District, Penwortham (1965-71); Industrial Chaplain of Warrington (1971-74); Vicar of St Andrew’s, Orford (1974-79); St Cuthbert’s, Burnley (1979-88); Bishop of Ripon & Leeds’s Adviser on Urban Priority Areas (1988-94); Hon. Assistant Curate of the Epiphany, Gipton, Leeds (1988-94); Rector of Carrickmacross with Magheracloone (1994-2001); aged 87.

WILLIAMS. — On 3 March, the Revd Evelyn Joyce Williams: NSM of Holy Trinity, Sittingbourne, with Bobbing (1989-2009); aged 85.

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