FUNERALS OF 16 VICTIMS TODAY
Funerals of 16 victims today
By Tony Bailie
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS
SIXTEEN of the Omagh dead will be buried in villages and towns in Tyrone and Donegal today.
Mourners in Aghabrack will follow the small white coffin of 20-month-old Breda Devine leaving the church of St Mary's at 11am this morning.
At the same time the three boys from Buncrana, Oran Doherty (8), James Baker (12) and Sean McLaughlin (12) will be buried after a joint service at St Mary's in the Co Donegal town.
Funeral services will also take place at 1lam in St Patrick's in the village of Eskra, near Omagh, for 17-year-old Jolene Marlow; and at St Mary's in Loughmacrory, for another 17-year-old, Brenda Logue.
Half an hour later a service will begin at the church of the Immaculate Conception in Beragh for 65-year-old Mary Grimes, whose pregnant daughter Avril Monaghan and her 18-month-old daughter Maura were buried yesterday.
At noon, a service will begin in the Castle View home, in Omagh, for 16-year-old Alan Radford who had been shopping in the town with his mother when the bombers struck; while at Knockmoyle the Gallagher family will bury their only son, 21-year-old Aidan.
Later this afternoon at 2pm, 15-year-old Lorraine Wilson, who had been working in an Oxfam charity shop, will be buried from her family home in the town.
Also at 2pm, 18-year-old Gareth Conway from Carrickmacross will be buried from St Colmcille's in the village, while 60-year-old Olive Hawkes will be buried from Moyne Methodist Church; and Veda Short will be buried at Seskinore Presbyterian church in Letfern Road in Seskinore.
At 2.30pm a joint funeral service will be held in Creevan Presbyterian church for father and son, Fred White (60), a member of the Omagh Ulster Unionist Association, and 26-year-old Bryan.
The last funeral of the day will be that of Philomena Skelton from St Patrick's at Drumquin at 3pm.
Nine more funerals will be held tomorrow for Esther Gibson, Geraldine Breslin, Ann McCombe, Brian McCrory, Samantha McFarland, Julie Hughes, Elizabeth Rush and Deborah Ann Cartwright
The two Spanish victims of the attack 12-year-old Fernando Blasco and 23-year-old Rocio Abad Amos, were buried in Madrid last night
By Tony Bailie
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS
SIXTEEN of the Omagh dead will be buried in villages and towns in Tyrone and Donegal today.
Mourners in Aghabrack will follow the small white coffin of 20-month-old Breda Devine leaving the church of St Mary's at 11am this morning.
At the same time the three boys from Buncrana, Oran Doherty (8), James Baker (12) and Sean McLaughlin (12) will be buried after a joint service at St Mary's in the Co Donegal town.
Funeral services will also take place at 1lam in St Patrick's in the village of Eskra, near Omagh, for 17-year-old Jolene Marlow; and at St Mary's in Loughmacrory, for another 17-year-old, Brenda Logue.
Half an hour later a service will begin at the church of the Immaculate Conception in Beragh for 65-year-old Mary Grimes, whose pregnant daughter Avril Monaghan and her 18-month-old daughter Maura were buried yesterday.
At noon, a service will begin in the Castle View home, in Omagh, for 16-year-old Alan Radford who had been shopping in the town with his mother when the bombers struck; while at Knockmoyle the Gallagher family will bury their only son, 21-year-old Aidan.
Later this afternoon at 2pm, 15-year-old Lorraine Wilson, who had been working in an Oxfam charity shop, will be buried from her family home in the town.
Also at 2pm, 18-year-old Gareth Conway from Carrickmacross will be buried from St Colmcille's in the village, while 60-year-old Olive Hawkes will be buried from Moyne Methodist Church; and Veda Short will be buried at Seskinore Presbyterian church in Letfern Road in Seskinore.
At 2.30pm a joint funeral service will be held in Creevan Presbyterian church for father and son, Fred White (60), a member of the Omagh Ulster Unionist Association, and 26-year-old Bryan.
The last funeral of the day will be that of Philomena Skelton from St Patrick's at Drumquin at 3pm.
Nine more funerals will be held tomorrow for Esther Gibson, Geraldine Breslin, Ann McCombe, Brian McCrory, Samantha McFarland, Julie Hughes, Elizabeth Rush and Deborah Ann Cartwright
The two Spanish victims of the attack 12-year-old Fernando Blasco and 23-year-old Rocio Abad Amos, were buried in Madrid last night
Further Information
Publisher: THE IRISH NEWS
Ref: IN/0069
Published Date: 19-Aug-98
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