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RIP: Longford mourns death of Martha Glennon who was a warm, gentle and patient teacher

Late Martha Glennon (née Browne), Cloonadra, Lanesboro, Roscommon / Longford

RIP: Longford mourns death of Martha Glennon who was a warm, gentle and patient teacher

The Late Martha Glennon (née Browne), Cloonadra, Lanesboro, Roscommon / Longford

Reporter:

Joe O'Brien

11 Mar 2025 9:00 AM

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Lanesboro correspondent

As a teacher for so many years she was the centre of so many people’s life creating a wonderful place in their hearts with her style of teaching and the security she afforded everyone in her classroom, the passing of Martha Glennon, Cloonadra, on Sunday, March 2 greatly saddened the hearts of everyone. 
Martha, a native of Carrickedmond, from a family of ten, was predeceased by her husband Pete, her siblings Joe, Vonnie, Delia, Anne and her granddaughter Sarah.
Her teaching career began in Newtowncashel where she was recognised by coming to school on her scooter. Martha’s love of education and educating was clearly evident from the very beginning as she was acknowledged as a warm, gentle and patient teacher who lived by her adage of “be patient with your children as God has not stopped working on them yet”.
To be in the company of Martha for a minute or an hour you got a superb feeling of security and warmth where time just did not matter. She had a great interest in how you and your family were progressing. Her unique way of encouragement and support made you feel very reassured.
Martha had a wonderful faith and no day was complete with her reciting the rosary, she was also an avid reader.
After taking a break from teaching Martha returned to teaching in Ballagh NS and later in St Joseph’s Longford where so many more young people benefited from her excellent teaching style. She met and married local Cloonadra man Pete Glennon in the Church of the Blessed Virgin, Newtowncashel in 1965 where the students of the school turned out to give her a guard of honour.
Pete and herself – a match made in heaven - reared six children with their unmatched warmth and devotion and took great pride in each of their achievements.
The attendance at the reposing of her remains in Smyth’s Funeral Home, Roscommon on Tuesday and again at the Mass of the Resurrection in the Church of the Holy Rosary, Ballyleague on Wednesday, March 5 bore ample testimony to the esteem in which she was held. Martha was later laid to rest alongside Pete in Cloontuskert Cemetery.
To her family Damian, Frank, Vinnie, Ronan, Ruth and Alan, her brothers Jim, Paddy and Peter, her sisters, Doreen and Kathleen, her relatives and so many friends we extend our deepest sympathy.

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