LITTLE GIRLS GOODBYE TO GRANNY
Little girls' goodbye to granny
By HELEN WEATHERS
ON Tuesday they saw their mother Avril and baby sister Maura laid to rest.
Yesterday they said goodbye to their grandmother. Mary, 65.
Two funerals in two days for five-year-old Aoibheann Monaghan her sister Elisha 4 and Patrick 2.
They were among hundreds of mourners led by Mary's husband. Michael, in the Church of The Immaculate Conception in Beragh.
The mother of nine sons and two daughters, Mary was killed with daughter Avril - eight months pregnant with twins - and 18-month-old Maura.
Fr James Grimes. Mary's brother-in-law, said: "I nearly broke down this morning when Mick gave me a poem he had written for Mary's 65th birthday last Saturday.
"He'd had it put into song. She was thrilled. That showed the love that existed between them and their family."
By HELEN WEATHERS
ON Tuesday they saw their mother Avril and baby sister Maura laid to rest.
Yesterday they said goodbye to their grandmother. Mary, 65.
Two funerals in two days for five-year-old Aoibheann Monaghan her sister Elisha 4 and Patrick 2.
They were among hundreds of mourners led by Mary's husband. Michael, in the Church of The Immaculate Conception in Beragh.
The mother of nine sons and two daughters, Mary was killed with daughter Avril - eight months pregnant with twins - and 18-month-old Maura.
Fr James Grimes. Mary's brother-in-law, said: "I nearly broke down this morning when Mick gave me a poem he had written for Mary's 65th birthday last Saturday.
"He'd had it put into song. She was thrilled. That showed the love that existed between them and their family."
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Publisher: THE MIRROR
Ref: TM/062
Published Date: 20-Aug-98
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