Funeral Mass takes place of well respected Longford man who died in New York
Peter Fitzpatrick, New York and formerly of Toome, laid to rest in Mullinalaghta cemetery
The Funeral Mass took place last Saturday in St Columba’s Church, Mullinalaghta of the late Peter Fitzpatrick, New York and formerly of Toome, who died last month and whose ashes were brought home for burial.
The large attendance present was testament to the high esteem in which he and his family are held by the wider community.
The celebrant of the Funeral Mass was Fr Michael Bannon P.P. Peter was the fourth of six children of the late Bernard and Annie Fitzpatrick of Toome and was born in March 1944.
After his schooling in Cloncovid, he and his brother Packie began a milk-collection run in 1964 bringing milk churns from local farmers to the creamery in Grousehall, as well as being well-known as an active and progressive farmer in the area.
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In 1974, after his mother Annie had passed away, both Peter and his sister Kathleen emigrated to New York to join their brother Owen, where he continued in the milk delivery business for many years until his retirement. He had a great love of meeting and talking to people and was an active member of both his home and his adopted community.
He also had a great love of cards and had a great fondness for his many nieces and nephews all over the world to whom he was a generous host on any visits to New York City. He was deeply religious and was a faithful parishioner of St. Barnabas’s Church, Woodlawn, New York.
He was predeceased by his parents, by his sister Nan, and by his brother Packie. He is survived by his sister Kathleen, his brothers Owen and Bernard, his sisters-in-law Mary in New York and Hilda in Toome, his nephews and nieces, his grand-nephews and grand-nieces, his relatives, neighbours, and a large circle of friends both in New York and in Ireland. His interment took place afterwards to Mullinalaghta cemetery where he was laid to rest in the family plot.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam uasal.