Memorial Service for Dr Catrin Prys Jones

Wednesday 3 January 2006
Dr Catrin Prys Jones
A memorial service Dr Catrin Prys Jones, who died in October 2006, will be held on Saturday 6 January 2007 in Hyfrydle Chapel, Holyhead. Following the service a reception will be held at The Valley Hotel, Station Rd, Valley, Anglesey. Catrin was a member of staff at the Department of Theatre, Ffilm and Television Studies. Donations in memory of Catrin can be made to Broglais Hospital Intensive Care Unit.

After her death Professor Elan Closs Stephens paid the following tribute.

Catrin Prys Jones
I was asked, on behalf of co-workers and students, to mark the death of our fellow worker, Catrin Prys Jones. We were shocked and very much saddened by her premature death at only thirty years of age.  I myself was particularly saddened  as she was my student while she studied towards her PhD during her early years in the Department.

Initially I got to know Catrin as an exceptionally able undergraduate student, who always challenged and who was stubborn enough to get to grips with smug ideas. She was also funny, witty, very beautiful, loyal to her friends and co-workers and incredibly faithful to Liverpool Football Club.  There wasn't any doubt in the world regarding her First Class Honours degree, and she had the ability to communicate and critically challenge on a very high level in both languages used in the Department.

The students in the Department will know her through her work with Welsh-medium students on European Theatre and on dissecting productions.  She was also a Lecture in the field of Television Drama.  In this field, where her profile in the UK was growing within the media community, she completed her PhD on Dennis Potter's work, she contributed to the volumes Fifty Key Television Programmes and Tele-Vision and Tele-Visual which were published by the BFI, and which were edited by her partner, Glen Creeber, and used frequently by our undergraduates and in Media Departments in universities across the United Kingdom. She also contributed to the proposed textbook for Welsh-medium students which will now be published posthumously.

Catrin was a perfectionist.  Her care for the quality of her lectures and seminars was great.  During the last few years she couldn’t reach her own high standards because of the complication of her illness, and she herself suffered more than anyone else because of this.

We sympathize greatly with her parents, John and Valmai, her sister, Elen, and her husband Rowan, and especially with our co-worker, Glen Creeber, Catrin’s partner.

Elan Closs Stephens