Below are the recent local deaths.
May they rest in peace.
Abigail Ellen Goodwin
Dunboyne, Meath / Mountrath, Laois
After a short illness and in Connolly Hospital, the death has occurred of Abbie on Friday 3rd May 2024.
Daughter of Richard Chambers and Jane Austin of Rushin, Mountrath. Loved and beloved wife and sweetheart of the late Billy Goodwin. Reunited once again after nearly 18 years. Beloved mother of Jennifer, Jonathan and Lynn, mother in law to Anne and proud Nana to Daniel, Adam, Katie and Abigail. And not forgotten her best friend and companion, her cat Lucy.
Family flowers only. Donations to Christian Aid and cat charities of your choice in her memory.
Funeral Arrangements Later
Mary Keller (née Dunne)
Lea Road, Portarlington, Laois
Peacefully, surrounded by her loving family, at her daughter Ruth’s residence, Lea Road Portarlington. Predeceased by her loving husband Jack, brother Paddy sister Kathleen. Deeply regretted by her loving family Frank, Mary, Paddy, Ann, Bernadette, Kate, Jim, John, Rosemary and Ruth, brother Michael, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, relatives, neighbours and friends.
Reposing at Maher’s Chapel of Rest, Portarlington, on Monday evening from 6pm with Rosary at 8pm. Removal from her daughter Ruth’s residence Lea Road, Portarlington, on Tuesday morning at 10:50am arriving St Michael’s Church, Portarlington, for Requiem Mass at 12 noon. Funeral afterwards to St Michael’s Cemetery, Portarlington.
Mary’s Requiem Mass will be streamed live on.
https://www.mcnmedia.tv/camera/st-michaels-church-portarlington
Family flowers only, please. Donations, if desired to Laois / Offaly Palliative Care.
Baby Freya Delaney-Bolger
Mountmellick, Laois / Kildangan, Kildare
Baby Freya Delaney-Bolger. Much too precious for this world. Born and died 1st May 2024.
Beloved new born baby daughter of Orla Delaney Mountmellick Co. Laois and Callum Bolger Ardenode Ballymore Eustace/Kildangan.
Freya is resting at their home in Ardenode (W91 A9C2).
Callers welcome between 5pm – 7pm on Sunday 5th May and house private thereafter please.
Freya’s Mass of the Angels is on Tuesday 7th May at 11am in St Joseph’s Parish Church Mountmellick moving to her final resting place in St Joseph’s Cemetery Mountmellick afterwards.
Freya will be cherished, loved and remembered forever by her heartbroken Mammy and Daddy, grandparents Vincent and Ellen Bolger and Noel and Marie Delaney, aunts Aoife, Aisling and Saoirse Delaney and a huge circle of family and family friends.
Terence Dunne
Ballintubbert, Laois, R14 RW53 / Athy, Kildare
The death has occurred of Terence Dunne, Ballintubbert, Co. Laois who passed peacefully at his home, surrounded by his loving wife and family. Sadly missed by his loving wife Margaret, sons and daughters Terence, Sheila (Bergin), Edmund, Gráinne (Brennan), Tom and Dan, daughters-in-law Jennie, Teresa and Aisling, sons-in-law Andy and Francis, grandchildren Eoghan, Grace, Liam, Ned, Áine, Bláithín and Nessa, brothers Fr. Dan and Dick, sisters-in-law, nieces and nephews and many friends and neighbours.
Terence will repose at his family home in Ballintubbert (R14 RW53) on Sunday (May 5th) from 4pm with prayers at 8pm. Requiem Mass on Monday (May 6th) at 11am in St. Joseph’s Church, Ballyadams (R14 PF30). The mass will be livestreamed on the Ballyadams facebook page, (see link ballyadamsparish). Removal afterwards to Mount Jerome Crematorium, Dublin for service at 2.30pm (D6W HY98).
Family flowers only please. Donations, if desired, to PSPA Ireland.
Manuela Andreea
Portarlington, Laois
Deeply regretted by her loving husband Constantin, daughter Smaranda Maria, son Matei Constantin, father Anton, mother Valeria, brother Cristian, mother-in-law Paraschiva, father-in-law Mihai, extended family, friends and colleagues.
Reposing at Maher’s Chapel of Rest, Portarlington (eircode R32 X5XV) on both Saturday and Sunday afternoon from 3pm until 6pm. Funeral Service in Maher’s Chapel of Rest, Portarlington on Monday at 1pm followed by Interment afterwards in St Michael’s Cemetery, Portarlington.
SEE ALSO – Deaths in Laois – Saturday, May 4, 2024
