Father Jozef de Bekker, Provincial Delegate of the sector of the Netherlands,
informs you of the return to the Lord of Father
Harrie Vernooy
on Tuesday the 3rd October 2017 at Almelo (Netherlands)
at the age of 91 years, of which 64 years of missionary life
in Malawi and in the Netherlands.
Let us pray for him and for his loved ones.
Milestones of Father Harrie Vernooy’s life
Harrie was born on the 30th December 1925 at Cothen, in the Diocese of Utrecht, in the Netherlands. He began his spiritual year with the Missionaries of Africa on the 1st September 1949 at ‘s-Heerenberg in the Netherlands, where he continued his theological studies and pronounced his Missionary Oath on the 22nd July 1953. He was ordained to the priesthood on the 10th June 1954 at Monteviot, in Scotland.
| 01/10/1954 | | Bembeke | Nyasaland (Malawi) |
| 06/07/1955 | | Mtendere | Nyasaland (Malawi) |
| 01/01/1959 | | Dedza | Nyasaland (Malawi) |
| 01/01/1960 | | Mua | Nyasaland (Malawi) |
| 19/05/1962 | Grande Retraite | | |
| 01/01/1963 | | Dedza | Malawi |
| 06/09/1963 | Supérieur | Mua | Malawi |
| 01/01/1970 | Fondation | Kandeu(?=Ntcheu?) | Malawi |
| 01/01/1976 | Supérieur | Ganya,D.Dedza | Malawi |
| 08/03/1978 | Session-Retraite | Jérusalem | Israël / Palestine |
| 01/01/1979 | Chaplain H.C. | Alemlo | Nederland |
| 01/01/1983 | Chaplain H.C. | Geesteren | Nederland |
| 01/09/1991 | Residence H.C. | Geesteren | Nederland |
| 03/10/2017 | Returns to the Lord | Almelo | Nederland |