This is a listing of notifications the Parramatta Marist Old Boys Union has received of the passing of Old Boys. “Vale” is latin for farewell and “Fortior Ito” means go forward with strength.

Click on the Old Boy’s Name for further details and a brief biography.

If we do not have the date of passing then the last day of the known month or year is used.

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Photo of Doug Anderson
Parramatta Marist Community Volunteer
Deceased: 13 October 2018
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Graduate High School: 14 November 1951 Deceased: 31 December 2015
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Photo of Br Charles Aquilina
Staff Member Parramatta Marist
Deceased: 28 July 2018
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Photo of Steven Arnold 1997
St Vincent’s House Captain
Graduate High School: 12 November 1997 Deceased: 9 November 2019
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Photo of Peter Barnes 1965
1965 School Captain
Graduate High School: 11 November 1965 Deceased: 12 February 2018
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Graduate High School: 14 November 1967 Deceased: 10 November 2020
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Graduate High School: 16 November 1966 Deceased: 17 January 2018
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Graduate High School: 14 November 1956 Deceased: 25 July 2019
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Graduate High School: 16 November 1977 Deceased: 31 December 2015
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Graduate High School: 14 November 1962 Deceased: 28 August 2019
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Graduate High School: 11 November 1964 Deceased: 10 August 2014
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Photo of Cardinal Edward Clancy 1940
Seventh Catholic Archbishop of Sydney from 1983 to 2001.
Graduate High School: 13 November 1940 Deceased: 3 August 2014
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Graduate High School: 16 November 1960 Deceased: 24 August 2017
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Graduate High School: 15 November 1955 Deceased: 15 June 2017
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Graduate High School: 11 November 1993 Deceased: 3 June 2017
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Photo of John Eather 1941
Intermediate Class
Graduate High School: 12 November 1941 Deceased: 27 July 2016
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Graduate High School: 15 November 1995 Deceased: 13 September 2021
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Photo of Charlie Eiler 1964
Graduate Royal Military College Duntroon. Killed in 1969 in a parachute accident while training with the SAS
Graduate High School: 11 November 1964 Deceased: 12 August 1969
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Graduate High School: 11 November 1964 Deceased: 31 December 2014
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Photo of James Patrick (Pat) Flaherty 1940
An Old Boy and former mayor of Parramatta and State Member for Granville
Graduate High School: 13 November 1940 Deceased: 9 November 2013
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Graduate High School: 17 November 1937 Deceased: 15 October 2016
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Photo of Cathy Furey
A non-teaching staff member at Parramatta Marist High filling a variety of roles 2008 – 2020
Deceased: 9 August 2020
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Graduate High School: 16 November 1955 Deceased: 22 April 2021
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Graduate High School: 15 November 1984 Deceased: 21 December 2018
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Photo of Dr Richard (Rick) Hope 1983
Very well respected gastroenterologist
Graduate High School: 16 November 1983 Deceased: 12 May 2016
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Graduate High School: 13 November 1963 Deceased: 23 August 2019
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Graduate High School: 17 November 1965 Deceased: 4 April 2021
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Graduate High School: 11 November 2009 Deceased: 9 February 2018
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Graduate High School: 16 November 1994 Deceased: 6 June 2019
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Graduate High School: 1 November 1956 Deceased: 11 April 2023
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Graduate High School: 11 November 1964 Deceased: 24 June 2021
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Graduate High School: 15 November 1995 Deceased: 23 November 2017
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Graduate High School: 14 November 1957 Deceased: 26 November 2016
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Graduate High School: 13 November 1991 Deceased: 12 October 2018
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Graduate High School: 17 November 1954 Deceased: 14 July 2019
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Photo of Marshal McMahon
Mathematics & Physics Teacher Parramatta Marist High 2008-2020
Deceased: 12 February 2021
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Photo of Ben Morris 1961/62
School Captain 1961
Graduate High School: 14 November 1962 Deceased: 27 August 2019
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Photo of Jim Robert Mulheron
Teacher of Modern History at Parramatta Marist from 1962 for a number of years
Deceased: 11 February 2020
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Graduate High School: 11 November 1964 Deceased: 22 May 2016
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Graduate High School: 11 November 1964 Deceased: 1 August 2014
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Photo of Professor Chris O’Brien AO, 1969
School Captain 1969 and Dux of School
Graduate High School: 12 November 1969 Deceased: 4 June 2009
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Photo of John Kevin O’Reilly QC , 1949
Retired District Court Judge
Graduate High School: 17 November 1949 Deceased: 15 January 2017
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Graduate High School: 13 November 1968 Deceased: 6 May 2019
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Graduate High School: 11 November 1964 Deceased: 8 February 2016
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Graduate High School: 11 November 1998 Deceased: 26 November 2016
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Graduate High School: 14 November 1945 Deceased: 31 December 2015
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Graduate High School: 15 November 1961 Deceased: 30 May 2014
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Graduate High School: 13 November 1963 Deceased: 22 February 2021
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Graduate High School: 4 November 1960 Deceased: 14 October 2015
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Photo of Cyril Shean 1967
An Old Boy and School Pool Manager 1968-2000
Graduate High School: 15 November 1967 Deceased: 28 October 2015
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Graduate High School: 14 November 1945 Deceased: 13 February 1963
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Photo of Stephen Tompsett 1979
Dux of 1979 and died in the Twin Towers 9/11
Graduate High School: 14 November 1979 Deceased: 11 September 2001
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Graduate High School: 11 November 1992 Deceased: 21 June 2019
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Photo of Barbera Wade
Parramatta Marist Community Volunteer
Deceased: 4 July 2016
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Graduate High School: 16 November 1955 Deceased: 11 August 2017
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Photo of Br Kevin Willits
French Teacher and Captain in the Cadet Corp at Parramatta Marist during the 1970s.
Deceased: 8 May 2016
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Graduate High School: 12 November 2014 Deceased: 16 May 2018
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Photo of Andrew Ziolkowski 1981
State Member for Parramatta 1991-1994
Graduate High School: 12 November 1981 Deceased: 12 April 1994
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3 thoughts on “Vale Old Boys – Fortior Ito”

  1. Chris was a good friend when I attended parramatta Marist. I used to run into him around the courts, he never seemed to change always a gentleman.

  2. Frank O'Sullivan

    Vale John Cassidy LC 1962 Died 28th August 2019

    John Cassidy and I worked on a religious organisation in our days at Marist Brothers Parramatta. It was to spread the message of Our Lady of Fatima that is, world peace through prayer, the Blue Army. It was a very strange coincidence that it was one of Cardinal Gilroy’s pet projects, but we didn’t know that at the time. The cardinal had set the organisation up in Sydney under Professor F G Coleman Sydney University and Father Cameron head of the Augustinian order in Sydney.

    From 1959 – 1962 I did latin classes at St Mary’s Cathedral, late on Friday afternoon in preparation to enter, my studies for the priesthood. I ran into Cardinal Gilroy on many occasions as he did confessions 5pm to 6pm and I trapped him either going/coming in the presbytery grounds. So the long and short of it all is, that I dragged our John C along with me to say Hi and explain the difficulties we were having with Monsignor McGovern in conducting our Blue Army prayer meetings in St Pats at Parramatta. He smiled at us both & said would we from time to time give him a progress report on our work with the Blue Army. John and I had a few brief encounters with the cardinal & strangely we never had any further problems with the cranky old monsignor.

    John Cassidy was a very humble man and would never have repeated this story but having been befriended by a cardinal, lived in a village named after the cardinal and being buried from the chapel on Friday 6th September 2019 that bears the cardinal’s name, I felt it appropriate to tell the story.

    Frank O’Sullivan

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