Roscommon native passes away in her 106th year
The late Mary Hevehan.
Mary Hevehan, Cloonshade, Four Roads, whose passing took place recently at the residence of her daughter, Mrs Aileen McEntee, Leafin, Nobber, County Meath, was in her 106th year.
Aged 105 on August 20th last, she was the former Mary Dowd, Curnapallis, Four Roads, and she had resided in a family setting at Cloonshade from 1951 up until eight years ago when she took up residence with her daughter Aileen and family.
A member of a well-known Four Roads farming family, she had been in ill health a short time. Of a quiet and caring disposition, she was respected in her residential catchment for her devotion to her family and her capacity for hard work.
She took a keen interest in all farming affairs always and was noted for her sense of neighbourliness in her residential catchment. An excellent homemaker, she was skilful at knitting sewing and cooking.
A religious person, she was a regular visitor to Knock Shrine over the decades and she supported a number of charitable causes. She was predeceased in April 2005 by her husband, Michael and is survived by sons, Liam, Cloonshade; Malachy, Sandymount, Dublin; daughters, Mrs Aileen McEntee; Mrs Marian O'Neill, Naas; Mrs Gerardine Kavanagh, Durrow, County Laois.
The last surviving member of a farming family of three boys and two girls, she is also survived by her sister-in-law, Kathleen Dowd, seven grandchildren, two great grandchildren, and a number of other relatives.
Following Concelebrated Mass at the Church of Christ the Good Shepherd, Four Roads, on Monday, February 23rd, the burial took place in Tisrara Cemetery. The celebrants of the Mass were Very Rev. Francis Beirne, PP, Ballyforan, Dysart and Tisrara and Rev. Paddy Mc Guinness, Celbridge, a friend of the Hevehan family.
