AUSTRALIA : RIP FR. BILL KEATING FRANCISCAN AGE 87

ARCHDIOCESE OF CANBERRA - GOULBURN REPORT

A long-time parish priest of Moruya, Fr Bill Keating, has died. He was 87.
Fr Keating was ordained in 1951 for the Order of Friars Minor by Archbishop Daniel Mannix in Melbourne.
He was accepted into the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn in 1959 and served at Cobargo, Young, Grenfell, Bega, Boorowa, Braddon, Fairbairn RAAF chaplaincy, Adaminaby, Narooma, Taralga and Moruya before retiring to his home in Bermagui in 2000. He was parish priest of Moruya from 1986 until his retirement.
The funeral Mass for Fr Keating will be celebrated at Sacred Heart Church, Moruya, on Monday. He will be buried at Moruya cemetery.

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