FRIENDS DON PINK AND WHITE FOR ‘BUBBLY’ MOLLY
SLATER
A TEENAGE girl will always be remembered due to her “bubbly personality” and“smiles” mourners at her Requiem Mass heard.
Molly Dempsey (15) from Whitehall Park, Baltinglass died at the scene of a fatal single vehicle crash early on Sunday morning at Slaney Park.
Her death was the third tragedy to hit the Dempsey family. Her two brothers Roy (13) and Kilian (18) both passed away tragically.
Friends from her school Scoil Chonclais held a guard of honour at St Joseph’s Church, many wearing pink and white T-shirts emblazoned with her image and name.
A car and tractor at Baltinglass led the cortege into the grounds of the church with the words ‘Molly 15’ across both.
Her pink coffin, with the name ‘Moll’, was carried into the church by pallbearers also wearing
T-shirts. A white and pink floral wreath and a smiling photograph of the young girl adorned her coffin.
During the sermon Fr Gerard Ahern, said: “Molly has died with a life ahead of her and we’ll never know now what that life would have been like.
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“Sadly that will not happen now but her bubbly personality, her singing voice, her love of animals, her sense of fun would have seen her grow into a wonderful person.”
Speaking of the loss, he continued: “We are all very conscious, but particularly for you Nigel and Mary, that this is the third time you’ve been asked to carry such a heavy cross.
“We think of Roy and Kilian, maybe it does offer some little support or comfort to you to know that once again that Molly, Roy and Kilian are together and that they will take care of her.”
He said her death came “without the slightest warning” with “no chance to prepare ourselves”.
The priest added: “We are plunged into darkness and in the space of a minute your whole life is turned upside down”.
Molly’s remains were interred in Baltinglass cemetery following the funeral mass.