LONDON - 15 February 2008 - 210 words
Memorial
Mass for Moira Lister
A Memorial Mass for Moira Lister,
will take place at St Mary's Church. Cadogan Square next Thursday,
21 February at 2pm.
Moira Lister de Gachassin-Lafite, Vicomtesse d'Orthez was born on 6 August 1923 and died on 27 October 2007. A stage and television actress, and writer, she was born in Cape Town and educated at the Parktown Convent of the Holy Family, Johannesburg.
She began her acting career on stage in South Africa and then went on to act in the London theatre as a teenager. Lister began working in films in 1944, and appeared in such movies as The Limping Man, The Cruel Sea and The Deep Blue Sea.
She had a regular role in the first series of the BBC radio comedy Hancock's Half Hour. She starred in the BBC television series The Very Merry Widow from 1967 to 1968. (Later series of this programme were titled The Very Merry Widow - and How!) Lister was performing until three years before her death, touring with her highly successful one-woman show about Noël Coward. She was vice president of the Catholic Stage Guild for many years.
Moira was married to the Vicompte d'Orthez who died id 1989. They had two daughters. The d'Orthez family have strong connection with Lourdes. In 1864 they donated the slope on which the Rosary Basilia was built and later contributed the bells of the church.
The Chief Celebrant at the Mass will be Canon Vincent Berry. The former Lourdes Diocesan Pilgrimage Director, Mgr Vladimir Felzman, who is now a chaplain at the Sanctuary at Lourdes, will give the homily. There will be a collection for Westminster Diocese Lourdes Pilgrimage.
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