All You Catholic's Out There

Richard Opperman · February 02, 2008, 04:29:49 PM

Yes I think the boy might be an Early, but not Terry?

Yes that is Patrick O'brian's younger sister - I think she became a nun?
He also had a older brother, Rorry - who was a Springbok Scout as a teenager and a older sister, cannot remember her name.

barb (Fry) · February 03, 2008, 02:17:15 PM

Bridget O'Brien ?

Barbara Eia (Brownless) · February 03, 2008, 02:31:06 PM

Is that Mrs O'Brien's (english teacher ) children

Diana Rudd (Boehme) · February 03, 2008, 03:02:10 PM

about being an English teacher.
Yes Bridgit sounds right.

Charmain Meier (Heusdens) · February 03, 2008, 04:47:56 PM

Diana

You go girl!! Sit Mike op sy plek!!! Age will be creeping up on him as well, and yes, I agree with you, being over 50 is not bad at all!!

Charmain

barb (Fry) · February 03, 2008, 05:34:44 PM

eng teacher and blue house choir coach, yes

Diana Rudd (Boehme) · February 03, 2008, 07:33:17 PM

Blue House choir coach.............takes a while but yes now I remember.

SandyB · February 04, 2008, 12:07:41 PM

Dianna ,
me a failed protestant but I remember father Keith very well .. sort of stood out with his yankee accent . and sometimes different ways of tackling things .. If I am not mistaken was it him that placed an ad in the newsletter when he noticed his attandance at church dropping ?? it read something like " good sheperd looking for some of his flock that have gone astray, if anyone has seen or found any of them please contact ......... "
We also had another interesting catholic priest some years later . forget his name
( german sounding ) but he was quite wacky , had a pilots licence .. also said he had money from an inheritance stashed away , so was more than comfortable but remained in priesthood cos he enjoyed it ..

You were telling Mike about age and being proud of it .. yes we all now in our half century still all young at heart and hope to enjoy many more years having fun with friends and family well into the autumn years .. I attach a cute cartoon pic of such scenario ... enjoy !

Diana Rudd (Boehme) · February 04, 2008, 12:59:12 PM

:emot19: Me on the right,has to be Debbie in the middle as she has the darker hair,Dalene on the left. The two of you can be fifty for the hell of it.

Of course the wine.The thing about our age is we now have fun and are not out to impress everyone.

to us half centurians

:

: Yes Father Keith did place that advert.That priest with the aeroplane,( he did have his own one here in Cape town) took me for a spin one time and did all these spins and turns (aerobatic stuff) I sh*t myself,but kept thinking "I'm with a man of the cloth here so the Lord will look out for me". Will get his name and a photo from my mom.

Richard Opperman · February 04, 2008, 02:23:26 PM

I was not a Catholic (was half breed Catholic namely Anglican), but the priest's name was father Eckerstoffe (excuse the spelling).

I remember our group Diana downing pepermint liquors at your folks house one Christmas eve after mass.

He was quite a character, good at photogaphy and full of life.
He was from a welthy German famely of the old school where one of the sons had to become a priest and remain as such or loose it all.

Some one in the Catholic church dropped him in the shit because of his photgraphy - he was not at the Wednesday mass when these only two people arrived, they found him at the camera club and as the story goes reported him to the big boys in Cape Town.

They transfered him to Kamieskroon, where he preached and made a big name for himself by taking photographs of wild flowers (next time you are in the area go to the Kamieskroon hotel and see some of his photographs on the walls) - the best thing that could have happened to him - th Lord works in mysterious was!

Debby and I bumped into him on Cape Town airport in 2000, he could not remember us, but we had a good chat with him and he is now preaching in the Keimoes/Kakamas area.

Another character of Oranjemund's yester year.

Richard

Michael Alexander · February 04, 2008, 02:45:03 PM

Father Eckersdorffe ( also excuse the spelling) , I bashed into him last in 1988 at Salesians Hostel in CPT, He is featured on one of the covers of a Newsletter abouut a sports day in Oranjemund.

Michael Alexander · February 04, 2008, 02:53:08 PM

Oh! I forgot, The age thing, You okies are all just jealous that you have rapidly passed the half century and I am but a chicken full of spring with 12 years to go....and anyhow , by that time they will have discovered how to reverse the aging process ... but by then it will be tooooo late for you lot.....

:emot19:
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Bev Coates (Now Walker) · February 04, 2008, 04:32:08 PM

mike ....we "oldies" are you in a few years time..........

:emot19:

We'll see if the Chicken really does have more spring hoolahoop1 in his step eh girls!!!!!!!!!

georg ruf jr. · February 04, 2008, 06:36:23 PM

Quote from: Michael Alexander on February 04, 2008, 02:45:03 PM
Father Eckersdorffe ( also excuse the spelling) , I bashed into him last in 1988 at Salesians Hostel in CPT, He is featured on one of the covers of a Newsletter abouut a sports day in Oranjemund.

Wasn't he around befor the american priest?

georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP) · February 04, 2008, 08:19:40 PM

Just for the record

Father Eggersdorfer from Austria as far as i remember

Or the Red Baron.....he used to fly with a small aeroplane until he crashed on a fence

Also an ardent Camera Club Member

The Machts in the Cape still have contact with him

After he left O-mund, the next father was dutch, to be seen in Oklahonma Pics at Beauvallon