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Clydebank Crematorium on March 31 – Marion’s birthday.
Marion added: “Mum had 25 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren but none of them were able to attend.”
The family hope to celebrate her life at a memorial service at Drumchapel Baptist Church on July 9, close to their parents’ wedding anniversary.
MICK GALLACHER, 34
Agency care worker, from Glasgow, who was training to be a nurse. He died on April 19, 2020.
KAREN HUTTON, 58
Nurse at Lochleven Care Home in Broughty Ferry, Dundee. She died on April 28, 2020.
PHILIP TARTAGLIA, 70
Archbishop of Glasgow who died on the day of the Feast of St Mungo – the city’s patron saint – on January 13, 2021.
STUDENT nurse Keren Nairns lost both her grandparents to Covid last year. Her gran Agnes Addison, from Bannockburn in Stirlingshire, died from the virus but the family believe her grandad Davy Wilson’s death is also partly attributable to Covid. Agnes, 69, died on March 29 last year while Davy, 61, passed away on October 7, while awaiting a hospital referral for an unrelated matter. Keren, 26, thinks Agnes contracted Covid at a 50th birthday party. She said: “She became unwell 24 hours after the party but stayed at home for the first seven days. On day eight, I phoned her and she still wasn’t good. I drove from Glasgow to Stirling but by the time I got there, her hands and feet were starting to turn blue.”
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NAGGAYI ANGELLA, 42
Uganda-born mum of two, from Edinburgh, worked in community care. She died on January 25, 2021.
Agnes was taken to hospital and after she was put on dialysis as her kidneys had begun to shut down, her son Chris, 46, travelled from England to join Keren and Davy at her bedside.
Keren said: “We got to say goodbye but my grandad didn’t want to see her that way – he was absolutely distraught.”
In lockdown, Davy was isolated, still grieving and, as he was shielding, was unable to go to the
MARK McCARRON GILLAN, 53
Father of three, from Glasgow, and soap factory worker Mark died on April 27, 2020.
NIGEL LORIMER BUSH, 61
Known to all as a “gentleman”, Nigel – from Kilwinning in Ayrshire – died on April 9, 2020. job he loved as a pensions administrator.
Keren hired a cleaner to help Davy with housework but got a call saying Davy was not answering his door. A neighbour went round and found him dead on his bed.
Keren said: “My dad and I have autoimmune diseases and my mum has asthma. Some of my grandad’s siblings are vulnerable, too. It felt like the world was out to get you.”
JANICE ‘MA’ MURPHY, 73
Mum of two and clinical support worker at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary for 30 years died on April 16, 2020.
ANNIE MUNRO, 84 ROBERT WEIR SMITH, 83
Former builder Robert – from Cambuslang, near Glasgow – was married to Margot for 60 years. He died on November 27, 2020.