Dedicated to the memory of Kate McSherry
This is a tribute to Kate McSherry, who lost her battle with Motor Neurone Disease, known as ALS in the US, on April 28 2012. She fought with dignity and good humour against a disease which progressively stripped her of her voice, then her ability to eat, walk, write, sit up, and eventually breathe.
Kate taught Drama and English at Loreto College Coleraine, St Mary's High School in Newry, and several schools in Lancaster. She studied at St Mary's University College in Belfast. A talented actress and singer, she played the lead role in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and South Pacific, and always loved to sing.
Like everyone who knew her, I remember her as beautiful, quick to love and deeply generous, even in the midst of her final illness.
Kate taught Drama and English at Loreto College Coleraine, St Mary's High School in Newry, and several schools in Lancaster. She studied at St Mary's University College in Belfast. A talented actress and singer, she played the lead role in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and South Pacific, and always loved to sing.
Like everyone who knew her, I remember her as beautiful, quick to love and deeply generous, even in the midst of her final illness.
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Thoughts
I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.
Speak to me in the easy way which you always used.
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
Life means all that it ever meant, it is the same as it ever was.
Extract from a poem by Henry Scott Holland
May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest
Alleluia
Siofra
28th April 2017
May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
Siofra
28th April 2017
