Our doughty Father Turkenburg, after a great struggle for life, expired at Manresa House on the 17th November, aged a little less than 53 years, and at the very time when he was gathering in a wonderful harvest of souls at Mahuadanr.
Fr. Turkenburg was a Dutchman, born at Amsterdam on the 15th Jan. 1894, he reached India in October 1920, taught for a couple of years at St. John's Ranchi, made his theological studies at Kurseong where he was ordained priest. After his formation, that is since 1928, he laboured uninterruptedly in the Ranchi Mission.