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Summary of Case: John J. “Jack” Wood was ordained for the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus in 1950. He had been working in Alaskan villages as a seminarian since 1945. In 1962 he transferred to Seattle University to teach, returning in 1965 to Alaska for another year. Next he was assigned to a Portland OR parish, back to Seattle U., on to a Spokane convent and then to a Beaverton OR nursing home as chaplain. Wood spent the following 11 years at a Portland OR retirement facility and another nearly 10 years at a Care Center in Spokane. He died in Spokane March 11, 1997. Wood’s name was included on the Fairbanks diocese’s list in 2009 of “individuals against whom one person has brought a complaint of sexual abuse”. The abuse is said to have occurred in Chevak AK, where he was assigned in the 1950s.
Ordained: June 17, 1950
Died: March 11, 1997
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