RIP: Longford mourns death of lady who worked in New York with leading fashion designer
Late Rosemary Slattery (née Reynolds), Grange South, Mullingar, Westmeath / Lanesboro, Longford
Spending her younger life in Lanesboro, growing into a spirited lady who always remained loyal to her family, neighbours, friends and community despite her moving to England and New York before finally settling in Mullingar it was with great sadness we learned of the death at her home in Grange of Rosemary Slattery, Grange South, Mullingar on Saturday, April 11.
Rosemary moved to No. 2 the Green, with her late parents Thomas and Mary Kate when her father began working with Bord na Mona. Rosemary was predeceased by her brothers Brendan (Benny), Séanie, Jim and Mossie.
Rosemary first departed to England before then relocating to New York where she met and married her husband John Slattery before they moved back to live on the outskirts of Mullingar.
Home always remained Lanesboro and the family home moved from the Green to the Rathcline Road. During her mother’s later years she totally dedicated care and attention to her.
It was fitting that she worked in New York with fashion designer Óscar de la Renta as Rosemary was a lady with a tremendous eye for fashion and style and she was very well coordinated and elegant every time she went out.
She was a caring and generous lady giving so much of herself towards all her brothers, sisters, nephews and nieces. Rosemary loved to chat and her interactions with so many locals when she came back to Lanesboro.
Predeceased by her parents Thomas and Mary Kate Reynolds (née Bannon), her brothers Brendan, Seán, Jim and Mossie, her sisters-in-law Mary and Kathleen, her brothers-in-law Patsy, John, and her nephew James.
Rosemary will be very sadly missed and lovingly remembered by her beloved husband John, her brother Fr. Kevin MHM (Castlerea), her sisters Eileen Slattery (New York), Ann Madden (Cappamore, Co Limerick) and Teresa Redfearn (Watford, England), her brothers-in-law Tom Madden and Malcom Redfearn, her sisters-in-law Rita, Mary and Ita Reynolds (Cloontuskert), her nephews, nieces, grandnephews and grandnieces, relatives, neighbours and friends.
Rosemary’s remains reposed in Gilsenan’s Funeral Home, Mullingar on Tuesday, April 14, her Funeral Mass was celebrated at the Church of the Little Flower & Our Lady of Good Counsel and burial took place at Granlahan Cemetery, Ballinlough, Co. Roscommon.