Father Patrick G. MALONE

MALONE, S. J. Father Patrick G.
At the Ajax-Pickering Hospital, Pickering, Ontario, on Monday, February 26, 2001 in his 83rd year and in the 66th year of his religious life. Fr. Malone was born in 1918 in Belfast, Ireland, and entered the Society in 1936 in the Province of Upper Canada. Fr. Pat was the son of the late Hugh and Eliza Malone. Upon completion of the Novitiate at Guelph, he studied Philosophy in Toronto. After his philosophical studies, he went on to do his Regency at Loyola in Montreal. Fr. Pat studied Theology at Regis College in Toronto from 1946 to 1950 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1949. He was assigned variously to St. Mary's College in Halifax, to Loyola in Montreal as Rector and President to these institutions and to Rome to work in the area of Public Relations for the Gregorian Biblical Institute. From 1980 to 1991 he was assigned to be the Superior of the Jesuit Residence in Halifax. In September of 1991 he was assigned to St. Paul's College as the Superior of the College Community in Winnipeg. He worked in Winnipeg until 1997 after which he was assigned to Pickering to continue his work in the Spiritual Exercises Apostolate at Manresa Retreat House. Fr. Pat was a man dedicated to serving God's people and will be missed by many students, teachers and retreatants who got to know him over the years of his very active apostolic life. Fr. Pat leaves to mourn his passing, his Jesuit Brothers, his sister Rita Gamsby of London, Ontario, his nieces, Patricia Scott and Joan Gamble of London and Unionville, Ontario respectively, and his sister-in-law of Mississauga, Ontario. Visitation will be held at the Rosar-Morrison Funeral Home & Chapel, 467 Sherbourne St. (south of Wellesley) on Wednesday, February 28, 2001 from 2-4 p.m., and at St. Ignatius Chapel, Manresa Retreat House, 2325 Liverpool Rd. North, Pickering, Ontario from 7-9 p.m. The Funeral Mass will be held at Manresa Retreat House, Pickering, Ontario on Thursday, March 1, 2001 at 11 a.m. Burial at Jesuit Cemetery, Guelph, Ontario in the spring. In memory of Fr. Malone, donations may be made to the Jesuit Development Office, 1325 Bay St., Toronto, Ontario M5R 2C4.