A PRIEST who served a Keighley church and school during the 1960s has died, aged 78.

Father Terry Tolan was living in Sheffield when he died, but was previously a curate at Our Lady of Victories Church.

He was also chaplain to Holy Family Catholic School when it opened in 1964/65.

Father Tolan was born in August 1936 and trained for the priesthood at Ushaw College, Durham.

He was ordained on June 12, 1960, for the Diocese of Leeds and appointed as curate to The Sacred Heart Church in Leeds, where he served there until August 1964 before when he moving on to Our Lady of Victories, Keighley.

In 1972 he moved to Leeds Cathedral for his last four years of being a curate andFather Tolan was later appointed as parish priest to Armthorpe, going on to . From there he moved on to Holy Spirit Dronfield in June 1987.

In 1996 he moved to St William’s, Sheffield, where he remained until retiring from this post in October 2011.