RIP: Much-loved 92-year-old Tipperary nun passes away on Valentine's Day
Affectionately known as "Auntie Paul" by her many loving nieces, nephews, grandnieces, grandnephews, cousins and friends, she will be sorely missed by all.
The death occurred of Sr Mary Paul English (Margaret) on Friday, February 14 aged 92, writes PJ English in this week's Clogheen notes.
Sr Paul joined the French Order of the Holy Family at 18 years of age and devoted her life to service working as a nurse in France, England, Tullamore and in more recent years in Knock, county Mayo.
Despite living away from Tipperary for the majority of her life, home for Sr Paul was always her beloved Toormore, Burncourt.
She loved to return home to the area as often as she could and spent many evenings regaling stories of her childhood growing up in Toormore.
Affectionately known as "Auntie Paul" by her many loving nieces, nephews, grandnieces, grandnephews, cousins and friends, she will be sorely missed by all.
She is pre-deceased by her siblings James, Christy, Lily McGrath, Mary Kenneally, Kitty Brazil; her nephew Michael English, nieces Mary Phelan and Marie Davis; grandniece Deborah Davis and grandnephew Ronan Dwyer.
Her funeral Mass will be celebrated in St John the Baptist Church, Knock, followed by burial in Clonminch Cemetry, Tullamore on Wednesday, February 19.