NCOBA

In Memoriam

Please remember in your prayers the souls of these Old Boys who have died since the beginning of 2006.
They were remembered at the memorial mass on 2 December 2006 and included in our prayers.

Eternal Rest Grant unto them O Lord
And let perpetual light shine upon them. Amen.

Deceased Nudgee Old Boys
Deceased Christian Brothers
Deceased Members of the Nudgee Family

Deceased Nudgee Old Boys

BAKER	Ronald Joseph	1930-33
BARRETT	Michael Bernard	1942-43	Brother of Kevin 1951
BEHM	Rev Fr William James	1929-31	Brother of Tom 1930, John 1935. Uncle and Great Uncle to Behm, Freney and Sartori Families
BLAIK	Mark James	1993-94
BODE	Ivan Cecil	1947-49
BOHL	George Kevin	1942-43
CAMERON	Simon John	1936-38
CARMODY	Joseph	1939-46
CARROLL	Fr Patrick James	1937-39
COMPTON	Terence Peter	1962-66	Brother of Ray 1966, Greg 1968
COTTER	William Morris	1935-36
DENHAM	Paul Robert	1969-71
DOLAN	James Kevin (Kev)	1943-44
FRASER	Frederick James	1960-62	Brother of John 1963
FRIEND	Bruce Leslie	1945-47
GORDON	Colin Carlyle	1928	Brother of Roy 1928, Thomas 1928
GRAY	Jack Allan	1939-42
HARDY	Ian James	1949-52	Brother of Graham 1948
HOGAN	John Frederick	1947
JOHNSTON	Martin Robert - Mort	1952-53	Father of Paul 1992, Stephen 1998
KENNY	Rev Dr Patrick Vincent	1929-33	Brother of Fr Bill 1921, John 1922, Virgil 1923. Christopher 1924, Claver 1925
KERR	Cormac James	1941-42
KERR	Kevin John	1944-47	Brother of Peter1954, Garnet 1962
KLUMP	John Frederick	1953-57
LANDY	Pete Joseph	1936-40
LUCEY	Kevin S	1939-41	Brother of Desmond 1935
LUDDY	Michael John	1960-63	Son of John C 1925.
LYONS	Michael Kevin	1947-50	Brother of Maurice 1952, James 1958
McNAMARA	Thomas Linus	1925-29	Father of Dennis 1961, David 1972
METCALFE	Gerard Neil	1931
NEEDHAM	Thomas Edwin	1945	Brother of Patrick 1943, Robert 1945, Br. Edward 1954
NOLAN	Timothy William	1994-96	Brother of Shaun 1995
O'BRIEN	Michael Joseph	1924-27	Father of Paul 1957. Brother of Richard 1927
O'CONNELL	Kevin John	1943-44
OLDANO	Leo Enrico Braddigo	1962-65	Father of Michael 1992
O'SULLIVAN	Francis Joseph	1970-71
PEARCE	Shaun Cameron	1987-91	Brother of Lachlan 1994
POWER	James Charles	1943-44
PRIDDIS	Kevin Walter	1925-30
QUINLAN msc	Br John William	1930
RASMUSSEN	William Arthur John	1947-51	Father of Patrick 1982, John 1986, Brother of Fr John 1956, Patrick 1957
ROACHE	Paul Chanel	1954-56
RUH	Roushan Harald	2000-02
RYAN	Leslie John Richmond	1943-46
SAVAGE	Bernard John	1940	Brother of William 1935, Colin 1943, Ken 1951
SMYTHE	Eric Waverley	1937
STEWART	Paul Daniel	1955-56
SUTTON	Charles P	1926-29
TANWAN	Ronald Edwin	1936-39
TATHEM	Bernard Francis	1947-49	Brother of Anthony 1961
TWIGG	Hedley Vincent	1935-36
UHR	Michael Wentworth	1954-55
WALSH	Richard Harvey	1939-42
WIGGINS	John Donald	1950
WINDSOR	Morgan Francis	1934	Brother of Harry 1932

Deceased Christian Brothers 2006

Listed below are the names of the Christian Brothers who have died during 2006. They were remembered at the memorial mass on 2 December 2006 and included in our prayers.

AHERN cfc	James Maurice
BOURKE cfc	John Vianney
CORNEY cfc	Eric Darius	Taught at Nudgee 1964
EDWARDS cfc	John Aloysius	Taught at Nudgee 1931-38 and 1939-44
IRVIN cfc	Bernard Donald
MARZORINI cfc	Francis Daniel
McDONOUGH cfc	John Berchmans
MOYLAN cfc	William Laurian
MULROONEY cfc	Colin Donald
PURCELL cfc	Desmond Ambrose

Deceased Members of the Nudgee Family - 2006

Listed below are the names of the members of the Nudgee Family who have died during 2006. They were remembered at the memorial mass on 2 December 2006 and included in our prayers.

AGNEW	Alan William	Father of Michael 1982, Christopher 1983, Allister 1985
AKERS	Robert George	Father of Blakeley 2001
ANNING	Margaret	Widow of William 1931
BAKHASH	Robert Michael	Father of Robert 1966
BANAGHAN	Agnes (Sarah)	Mother of James 1977, Peter 1977, John 1977, Michael 1976.
BISHOPP	Douglas John	Father of Peter 1966
BLANDFORD	Viveen June	Recent staff member of the College
BRADY	Willaim James	Father of Gerard 1970
BURKETT csb	Sister Kathlen	Sister of Patrick and Morgan 1954
BURSTOW	Eunice Merle	Widow of Tom 1932
CARMODY	Donald Keith	Father of Donald 1951
CHAN	Joseph Kwok Pang	Father of Brendan 1989 and Clinton 1993
CHERRY	Joan Margaret	Mother of David 1975 and Mark 1960
CONSTANZO	Giovanni (John)	Father of Ross 1960
CONWAY	Robert John	Father of Robert 1987, Michael 1988
CONWAY	Roy francis	Father of Terry 1972
DAHL	Sheila Devine	Widow of Charles 1929, Mother of Anthony 1966, Sister of George Pierce 1932
DANIEL	James Laurence Andrew	Father of Peter 1962, John 1963
DICK	John Stephen	Son of Thomas 1938; Brother of David 1968, Thomas 1969, Laurie 1970, Tim 1980
DILLON	Marilyn Emma	Wfe of Graham
DONAGHUE	Joan Margaret	Wife of Francis 1937, Mother of Terence - Nudgee Staff
DOWLING	Desmond Francis	Father of Kim 1968, Jerome 1971
FEGAN	Esther "Esme"	Mother of Kerry 1974
FINN	James Vincent	Father of Chris 1971, Laurie 1976
GORDON	Doreen	Wife of Colin 1928
GOUGH	Christina Johanna Cornelia	Wife of David 1962
HICKEY	Phillip Emmett	Father of Matthew 1999
HOLM	Thora Ellen	Mother of Peter 1958
INGHAM-MYERS	Catherine Margaret	Mother of Robert 1962, Grandmother of Luke 1988, Samuel 1991, Nicholas 1993.
KALMS	Beryl Margaret	Mother of Peter 1970 and Mark 1979
KUTIJA	Michelle Ann	Sister of Robert 1985 and Paul 1985
LEE	Eileen Lexie (Toots)	Mother of Peter 1970, Ray 1970, Max 1971
LOVETT	John Anthony	Father of Kevin 1972
MANGANO	Coral Grace	Wife of Ross 1949
McCAWLEY	Carmel Olive	Widow of Desmond 1931
McKEERING	Alice Philomena	Mother of John 1958 and Len 1962
McVEIGH	Patrick Warren	Father of Jason 1985, Martyn 1983
NAUGHTON	Edwina
O'MARA	Mary Patricia	Widow of Malachy 1932
O'REILLY	James Kevin	Father of Jerry 1969
O'SULLIVAN	Maria	Mother of A J (John) 1966
OVENDEN	Allison Margaret	Daughter of William H Ahern 1921
PALMER	Damian	Brother of Gerard 1970
PERREN	Reginald Allan	Father of Michael 1982
PINTER	Debbie	Mother of Michael 1989 and David 2000
PIVA	Modesto Francesco	Father of Robert 1968, Lawrence 1970, Neville 1975
REBGETZ	Mary Patricia	Widow of Reg 1932. Mother of Jim 1977, Grandmother of Paul 1998
RING	Beryl Veronica	Sister-in-law of Mary Ring - Nudgee Staff 45 years.
RITSON	Beverley Frances	Mother of Timothy 1981
ROCHE	Edna May	Widow of Vivian 1934, Mother of Peter 1961, Grandmother of James 1990, Anthony 1992.
RUDOLPH	Brian Stanley	Father of Greg 1988, Damian 1990, Matthew 1994, Sebastian 2000
SCANLAN	Sylvia Joan	Wife of John 1944, Mother of John 1973
SHEEHAN	Martin Logan	Father of Nicholas 1983
SHERMAN	Emily	Mother of Fr John 1954
SYKES	Earnest William	Father of Christopher 1979
TRACE	Rachael Therese	Sister of Christopher 1987
TYNAN	Muriel	Mother of Fr Pat 1954
YELLAND	Lorraine Geraldine	Mother of Stephen 1973, Simon 1976

December 2006

OBITUARY FOR
BYRNE Cornelius Gwydir Aloysius
1943-46
Prepared by his brother Rod Byrne 1942

Con was diagnosed with prostate and bladder cancer and had radiation and chemo-therapy. The latter stages of chemo really knocked him for a six. He entered the Mater in June to get over the chemo thinking he’d be there only a short time. However he died at 9.30am on November 11 having received the last rites just ten minutes before.

Both of us were born in Roma roughly three years apart. Con very early in life showed one of his very special attributes, namely a tremendous ability to remember events, faces and names.He was a real scholar in that he studied several languages through all his life. Even after he retired, he studied Hebrew, Greek and German at the University. He was already very fluent in Italian, which he learned for his overseas trip in 1963.

Con made friends easily and had many of them. Most were really long-time friends; a large number from his school days at Mt Carmel, Charters Towers, Downlands, Toowoomba and Nudgee here in Brisbane.

Sadly, Con never married but he was a sort of surrogate father to my four girls, whom he spoiled rotten. He was more than just an adult to all the children of his friends - he was their friend too.

And so to music. Con and I grew up with classical music. We heard classics almost entirely and we didn’t even have a radio until after 1939. So Con grew up loving the classics. He learned and attained professional competence on the violin and spent countless hours all his life, practising. One of the saddest days was when he had to give it away because of arthritis in his wrist. But when one door closed, Con opened another.

He had sung in the local church choir but he then decided to concentrate on singing. He had lessons, became very competent with a big bass voice and joined what was The Gap Choir, now called The Serenata Singers. He became their conductor, had lessons in that too, and for the last years just sang with them.

He was a gentleman in the usual, and also in the literal sense. He was a staunch Catholic and a lover of classic art in all its forms of music, painting, writing and poetry. One of he things I will really miss are our Sunday sessions. We’d go to 6.30 am Mass together then alternate breakfast and a yarn at each other’s place. We’d been doing this for some ten years since our Mother died - even though he made terrible porridge! Con’s special wishes were three: (i) to be home for Christmas (ii) to sing again with The Serenata Singers and (iii) to read here in this Church. Today I’m standing in for him and I’m proud to be his brother.

Ed Note:
Con wrote and arranged the music for a very beautiful Mass, which a specially prepared choir of Old Boys sang at our 75th Anniversary Mass in the Nudgee Chapel in 1997.