Acknowledgement from the family of the late Mary Dorrity

The family of the late Mary Dorrity (née ‘Andy’ Kelly) would like to sincerely thank everyone who offered their support during our recent sad loss of our much loved mother. We are especially grateful to all who visited our home and attended the funeral, including those who travelled long distances as far as Australia to be with us.

We also wish to thank everyone who sent Mass and sympathy cards, brought flowers, phoned and contacted on social media and all those who called to the house in the days after the funeral. A special thanks goes to friends, neighbours and local businesses who provided food and to our extended family for so generously taking care of the catering and stewarding of traffic during the wake.

We wish to express our sincere gratitude to the wonderful Doctors and all the staff at Draperstown Surgery, the medical and caring staff of Altnagelvin hospital, the district and community nurses, and O’Kane’s Pharmacy for their exceptional care and support to our mother and to us as a family. We extend our thanks also to the paramedics for their rapid response and care with Mary.

Our heartfelt thanks goes to Father Paddy Doherty (PP), Fr. Kieran O’Doherty and Fr. Hugh Lagan for their kindness and support, and for celebrating Mary’s Requiem Mass with such a wonderful heartfelt service. We also thank Fr. Peter Madden for his presence and prayers at our home and to the Chaplin's of Altnagelvin Hospital for their pastoral care and spiritual guidance at Mary’s bedside.

We are grateful to sisters Katrina and Emma Shaw for their beautiful music which added so much to the liturgy, to Gary of Devlin Media for the fantastic recording of the funeral mass, and to the sacristan and Eucharistic Ministers who assisted at the Mass. Thanks also to Blackhill Marquees and to MFL Plant Machinery for helping us to prepare for Mum’s wake.

We sincerely thank the students and staff of St Colm’s High School, Draperstown for providing a touching Guard of Honour which was a source of comfort to their colleague, Mary McIvor.

We are also grateful to all past and present carers of Mary’s husband, Willie, for their compassion and the support they have shown to Mary throughout the years.

We also wish to thank Watty Grahams GAA Club for providing the post-funeral refreshments and all who helped with serving them.

We are especially grateful to Michael and Nicholas Gormley of J. A. Gormley Funeral Directors, Maghera and Coleraine for their support and for the caring, professional and dignified manner in which all funeral arrangements were carried out. Thanks also to those who prepared the grave.

We are indebted to so many, and as it would be impossible to thank everyone individually, we hope that this acknowledgment will be accepted as a token of our sincere appreciation.

Mum was young at heart and achieved a lot in her 94 years on earth. She will be sorely missed by all who knew her.

Mary’s Month’s Mind Mass was celebrated in St. Patrick’s Church, Glen on Friday 10th October at 7:30pm.

Mass was viewed online via: st-patricks-church-maghera - MCN