Rev. Donald Charles Furlong CSB

Peacefully at home with his fellow Basilian Fathers on December 25, 2014. Fr. Don was born in Ottawa, ON on September 3, 1924, the only son of the late Charles Furlong and the late Mary MacDonald. He was professed in the Congregation of St. Basil on September 12, 1952 and ordained on June 29, 1956. Before and after ordination Don taught high school at St. Charles College in Sudbury, ON until 1970. For the next 26 years he ministered at three Basilian parishes: Holy Rosary and St. Basil’s churches in Toronto,ON and at Assumption church in Windsor, ON. In these parishes he made many friends for life who would regularly come to visit him in retirement at the Cardinal Flahiff Centre in Toronto, ON until his death. He was predeceased by his parents and by his eldest sister Helen O’Connell and is mourned by his sisters Ruth LaRochelle and Marion Daignault. There will be a Wake Service in the Chapel of the Cardinal Flahiff Basilian Centre, 95 St. Joseph Street Toronto on Tuesday, December 30 at 7:30 PM and his Funeral Mass Wednesday, December 31, 2014 at 10 AM. Visitation will be held in the Chapel one hour before each of these services. Burial will be at the Basilian plot at Holy Cross Cemetery, Thornhill, ON. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Basilian Fathers Retirement Fund, 95 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3C2