Our Lady of the Assumption Church - Newspaper Article
Publication: West Lancashire Evening Gazette
Date: Monday 9 October 2000
Title: Parish priest dies at 71
South Shore priest Father Anthony Foulkes has died after a short illness aged 71. The parish priest of Our Lady of the Assumption Church was in Victoria Hospital.
He was the eldest of three brother priests - John being at St Kentigern's, Blackpool, and Peter at St Bernadette’s in Lancaster.
Born in Manchester in 1929, Father Tony went to school at St Cuthbert’s Primary School and then St Joseph's College, both in Blackpool, before studying for the priesthood at Ushaw College, Durham, and at the Venerable English College in Rome.
He was ordained in 1954 and his first job was at St Cuthbert’s in Lytham Road, South Shore. After spells in Lancaster, Garstang and Preston, he moved back to the Fylde and was parish priest at St Edmund’s, Fleetwood, from 1971 to 1984. In 1985 he was appointed parish priest of Our Lady of the Assumption.
There will be a mass for the reception of his body at the church tomorrow at 7pm. His funeral mass will take place at 11.30 am on Wednesday.