Daughter’s appeal for help to find purse belonging to her late mum
GERALDINE Fenton Murtagh of Florence Terrace in Bray is distraught to have lost a purse which belonged to her late mother.
‘Its value for me is sentimental,’ said Geraldine. ‘Every time I look at it I see her holding it.’
Her mother Lily Fenton, a Limerick woman, just passed away in April.
Geraldine last saw the coin purse last Tuesday afternoon.
She was rushing and recalls putting the purse into the car with her daughter’s school bag after picking her up at St Patrick’s. She thinks it must have fallen out.
‘It was a very wet day,’ she remembers. ‘I had the purse in my hand and a parking ticket. I threw the bag into the back of the car and maybe put the purse on top.’
She believes it was when she was unloading the car at Florence Terrace that the purse dropped. ‘I have frantically searched for it,’ she said. Geraldine has checked hedges, the car again, the road. ‘It isn’t anywhere,’ she said.
The purse only contained around €6. ‘It wouldn’t matter if it was €600,’ said Geraldine. ‘It’s not the money, it’s the purse.’
She doesn’t have a picture of it, and described it as a little oval, probably the size of your palm. Brown on top and black on the base with a zip across the middle. It contained a few Euros and a trolley token. Geraldine’s mother used it all the time and it really reminds her of the late Lily. ‘It’s of massive, massive sentimental value. I can still see it in her hand. If I got it back I’d never let it out of my sight again. I could go out and buy one tomorrow but it wouldn’t be the same.’
Geraldine said that her eight-year-old daughter saw a gentleman stop and pick something up as they were leaving the area.
Geraldine asks that if anyone finds the purse, they hand it in to Bray Garda Station. Alternatively, find ‘Ger Fenton Murtagh’ on Facebook and send her a message.