Rev. Lowell Andrews, 1934-2018

Dear friends in Christ,
 
With sadness that is lightened by our hope in the resurrection, I write to inform you that Rev. Lowell Andrews, a priest of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter died on October 3, 2018.  He was 83 years old.
 
Father Andrews was born in Creston, Iowa on November 26, 1934.  After High School, he served honorably in the United States Air Force before beginning his career in the Episcopal Church.  Having earned his Bachelor’s degree with a Philosophy major and a Sociology minor, he continued graduate work at Arizona State University in Social Work and at the American Institute of Adlerian Studies.  He and his wife, Marilyn Joanne Kieffer, married on April 25, 1987.  A life-long Episcopalian, Father Andrews served as a social worker and school headmaster in the Episcopal Diocese of Arizona until his retirement in 2002.
 
On January 8, 2005, Father Andrews was ordained as deacon for the Anglican Church in America.  His ordination as a priest followed on December 3 of that year.  As an Anglican clergyman, Father Andrews faithfully served the people of God at the Church of the Holy Nativity in Payson, Arizona, leading them into the full communion of the Catholic Church in 2012 after the establishment of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter.  On December 16, 2012, Father Andrews was ordained to the Catholic priesthood and was appointed by Rev. Msgr. Jeffrey Steenson, then-Ordinary of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, as Parochial Administrator of the Church of the Holy Nativity.  He retired from active ministry at the beginning of July 2017.
 
Most Rev. Steven J. Lopes, Bishop of The Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter will offer a memorial Mass for Father Andrews at Holy Nativity Catholic Church, 1414 North Easy Street, Payson, Arizona 85541, on Saturday, November 3, 2018.
 
Please remember Marilyn and all who mourn in your prayers.  I ask that all priests of the Ordinariate offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for the blessed repose of the soul of Father Lowell Andrews.
 
Sincerely yours in Christ,
 
Very Rev. Timothy P. Perkins
Vicar General, Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter