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September 12, 2017

Fr. Pocock struck right note with ‘Duke’

Fr. Gerald Pocock, left, with jazz great Duke Ellington. The two were great friends

MONTREAL - Fr. Gerald Pocock, who died Sept. 4 in Ottawa at age 92, was a gregarious Roman Catholic chaplain at Montreal’s St. Mary’s Hospital in 1969 when he befriended American jazz legend Duke Ellington.

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