Estevan Deanery

By Frank Flegel It all began in 1980, when Parish Priest Father J.R. Prince of Estevan’s St. John the Baptist Church asked Doug Third to conduct a lay prayer service for a funeral vigil. “He gave me a book and said go at it,” said Doug Third in a telephone interview. In January 2018, he conducted his last service. “I couldn’t stand for a half hour anymore so I told them I had to stop.” Third was talking about his local parish, and the local funeral homes in Estevan and surrounding communities in southeast Saskatchewan that were the benefiters of his commitment.“I’m old and know a lot of... more