Rev Joseph O'Hara

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Joseph

Middle Names:

G.

Preferred Name:

Surname:

O'Hara

Order:

Date of Birth:

1930

Place of Birth:

Country of Birth:

Ireland

Date of Ordination:

Jun - 1955

Place of Ordination:

Country of Ordination:

Ireland

Ordination Diocese:

Perth

Seminary:

All Hallows College, Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland

Date of Death:

28-Jan-1959

Place of Death:

Country of Death:

Australia

Date of Burial:

1959

Place of Burial:

Karrakatta, Perth WA (Gravestone now at Holy Trinity, Rottnest WA)

Country of Burial:

Australia

Find A Grave URL:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185334990

Appointments Table

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Biographical Notes

Mosman Park, WA, etc

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Beloved pastor reaches his heavenly dock, The Record, Perth, 7 January 2013, https://therecord.com.au/news/obituaries/beloved-pastor-reaches-his-heavenly-dock/, accessed 22 August 2026:

The real problem for any obituary of Monsignor Sean O'Shea, possibly the most beloved priest of the archdiocese who died on December 7 and whose remains were buried beside his own beloved Holy Trinity Church on Rottnest Island on December 18, is knowing where to start.

[...]

However Monsignor O'Shea is not the first Irish presence to be comemorated in the grounds of Holy Trinity Church on Rottnest Island.

When older monumental works were being removed from Karakatta Cemetery in order to extend its life, Mgr O'Loughlin – then parish priest of Claremont – had removed the tombstone of Fr Joseph O'Hara, an Irish priest ordained with Mgr O'Loughlin in June 1955 but who tragically drowned with three Presentation Sisters in the Mandurah Estuary in January 1959.

He contacted Mgr O'Shea to tell him the tombstone was available and the Monsignor jumped at the opportunity to have it set in the grounds of Holy Trinity chapel on Rottnest.

In a very real sense the two Irish classmates remain united as they await the certainty of the Resurrection and that, many would agree, is a nice touch.