The Rev. Robert Wayne Locke (3/4/1938-12/1/2006) R.I.P.
Robert Locke+ died in Florida last December. Today, a memorial Mass was celebrated at St. Charles Episcopal Church, in St. Charles, IL. Bishop Montgomery was the main celebrant.
It was “meet and right” to attend, because he was my “first priest” when I became an Episcopalian in 1970, and served at my old parish, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Grayslake until Lent, 1979 — a person who I associate with my first 10 (and my happiest) years as an Episcopalian and young adult.
Below are some pictures I took after the service of an old picture of him, of his niche — and then I swung by St. Andrew’s on the way home to take a couple of pictures there, too.
Fr. Locke deserves to come up on a Google search (although he is mentioned briefly here).
And someday, if I ever write an autobiography, he’ll have a special place in it.