Mr Angus MacLeod, Stornoway
Angus MacLeod, an esteemed elder in the Stornoway congregation, passed to his eternal rest in the early hours of Sabbath, 27 December 2015, at the age of 77. Angus’s mother’s people were from Barvas, Lewis. He was brought up in Newvalley and attended Laxdale Primary School. He spent most of his working life in the Harris tweed industry, latterly as a manager in mills in Stornoway. He was a nephew of the late Rev D M MacLeod of Stornoway and Auckland, New Zealand.
Angus was converted during a period of hospital treatment on the mainland. He used to say that he went from Lewis to the hospital appointment in a state of nature and returned to the island in a state of grace. Creation itself, he averred, took on a new life.
In 1968 Angus professed faith and was received as a member in full communion in the Stornoway congregation and after some years he was ordained and inducted as an elder in the congregation. His advice in the different courts of the church was weighty and, in the lectern, when he was called to speak, he was able and clear in urging his hearers to be prepared for eternity – often speaking on the ten virgins. He was a melodious singer and frequently led the praise at divine worship.
Angus was laid to rest in the same Luskentyre graveyard, in Harris, as his wife, Isabella, who predeceased him by about 6 years. As we have reason to believe that they were heirs together of the grace of God, so we have a good hope that they are of those who “sleep in Jesus”, whom God will “bring with Him”. “Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”
To Angus’s immediate family – Alison, Valerie, Angela and Torquil – and to his sister Joan we extend our sympathy and commend Angus’s faith. “Whose faith follow.”
(Rev) J R Tallach