| Location | Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland |
| Age | 56 years |
| Cause of Death | Cancer |
| Date of Birth | 26/07/1947 |
| Date of Death | 17/06/2004 |
| Visitors | 1,362 since 25/10/2008 |
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What can I say. Our mother Ann was our best friend and we miss her so much.
She was a kind, generous woman who gave all of her time to her family and extended family. She could be the life and soul of any party and at the same time be the shoulder you needed to cry on.
She is missed everyday.
In 2001 Ann was diagnosed with the worst news she could get in that she had Ovarian Cancer. Our hearts sank at this news but she bounced back after a hysterectomy and chemotherapy and shaved her head to make things easier. She was a fighter and loved to make jokes about being bald etc.
She got remission status later that year and enjoyed her life for the next year or two. Her first Grandchild Emma Jane was born in 2003. She was delighted and started planning her future, telling us that she couldn't wait to see her make her First Holy Communion and that was her only wish etc. She couldn't spend enough time with her. She told us that she had a new lease of life now that she was a Granny.
I was due to get married in July and mam was helping me get everything ready for it. In the third week of April, 2004 she started to get very ill, shortness of breathe and vomiting etc. She collapsed and was taken to Tallaght hospital. She had a rough time in the hospital as conditions weren't great and was told that she had numerous problems with her lungs and that her cancer was back. She was sent home and we were very distressed as was she that she had no oxygen to take home (this is something that will anger me for the rest of my life). This was taken off her before being sent to rest at home before her re-admittance to St. James's Hospital for treatment with her oncologist. When eventually a week later she was admitted to her old doctor she started receiving better treatment. Things were looking up.
About two weeks after her admittance she was clearly very stressed and found it very difficult to breathe. We kissed her goodbye on the night of Monday 31st May and told her we would see her on the Wednesday evening. We didn't know that day that this would be the last time we would ever speak to our mother again. The next day she was transferred into the ICU Unit at St. James's Hospital on a Respirator.
We got a call on Tuesday 1st June from our Dad to say that she was in difficulty and that they needed us to come to the hospital. We found her on a ventilator and in a medically induced coma. Mam had been so distressed with her breathing that she begged the doctors to do something so they put her on the ventilator to give her lungs a break. She never came off it and died 17 days later. To beg for help to breathe is heartbreaking and to not know she would never come off it is very hard to deal with. Mam was a vibrant person and to have her taken away leaves a huge gap in all our lives.
She died at 10:15 p.m on 17th June aged just 56 years.
It was eight weeks in all from first signs of sickness to her eventual death to a killer called Cancer. We will hate that disease with a passion always for taking our mother.
This page is for our Mam, a woman who was our best friend, my knowledge and guidance and my angel. My wedding was postponed for six months and it was a day filled with saddness and happiness for all those people who had the pleasure of meeting and knowing this wonderful woman.
Her newest Grandchildren Shaun and Kelly Ann will never know her but they will always be told of her, the wonderful Grandmother they have smiling down on them.
We knew her, loved her and miss her everyday. She is in the Arms of the Angels wher she belongs.
We will love you always and forever.
Seven years On
Still think about you every day. This week is hard as its coming to 7 years since we had to say goodbye. Love you always
Long Time
Hi Mam. I haven't been on in a while but I know you are looking down on us and looking after us. It's only two and a half weeks until Emma makes her Holy Communion. The one day you wanted to see. We will be at your graveside on this day cause it's definately not something we would have you miss. Love you so much. It's been 7 years this week since you were taken into hospital and our lives changed forever. I hope you are happy in Heaven and are looking down on your Grandchildren, Emma, Shaun and Kelly Ann. Love you always. Jo
63 Today - Happy Birthday Mam
Hoping that wherever you are, you are having a lovely day.
Love always
Jo
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Another year has passed
I can't believe that we are coming up to our sixth year apart. It's still really hard.
Your missed so much every day and need you here to give us guidance. Your grandchildren are so grown up. Kelly Ann is the angel that you would have expected her to be and Shaun is as cheeky as ever. We'll both be down tomorrow for our little picnic with you. Sorry it's been so long since we been to visit but you are always in my thoughts and never forgotten.
Love you always.
Jo
Sorry i missed your anniversery and birthday!!
Hiya Ann, Jenny here!
Been thinking about you alot lately, what with the Birth of little "Kelly Ann" and myself going to Ireland at the end of this month to see Joanne! I am so excited to see her again, i promise you that i will give loads of hugs and make sure we have a fab few days!
I'm sorry i wasn't around to light you a candle on both your annivery and birthday, it was Chris' 31st Birthday last friday, could you do me a favour and if you see him around tell him i love him so much.
Thanks Ann, sending loads a love to heaven xxxx
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A MOTHER'S MESSAGE
FROM HEAVEN ⊱♥⊰
I see you, darling, all the time,
I know everything you do,
Would you believe, my dearest child
I'm even closer now to you.
For I can see inside your mind,
Indeed, inside your heart,
I even know you better now,
Than I did before, sweetheart.
I've always loved you - you know that,
But maybe now I love you more,
I love the adult that you've become,
Just as I loved the child before.
I know how much you miss me, honey,
Well, I miss you, too,
I miss our talking and our laughing,
And all we used to do.
Whether you are six or sixty,
You'll always be my precious child,
You're the baby that I carried,
And the adult that's helped me smile.
What you need to understand,
Though death has taken me away,
Is that I've not left you, darling,
I am still with you today.
Honey, I could never leave you,
God, of course, would not want that,
Physically, we are apart,
But our hearts are still attached.
I love you all the time,
You cannot get away from me,
That's the way a Mother is,
Right into eternity.
Every day I'm with you
I see you from above,
And I want for you to know
How very much you're loved.
written by Virginia (Ginny) Ellis
Happy Birthday Mam
Happy Birthday Mam on what is your 62nd Birthday. Missing you every day. We sang Happy Birthday at your grave yesterday and Shaun wanted to blow out a candle so he did and sang happy birthday again. You are missing so much with kids who love you even though one doesn't know you and the other doesn't remember. They still talk about you and are told how wonderful a person you were. Love you always. Joanne, Damien, Emma Jane and Shaun, John, Laura, Kelly Ann and Robert
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU ANN
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♥ Are there birthdays up in heaven
does an angel blow his horn
announcing to all the angels
this is the day you were born ♥
♥ Can the stars be your balloons
and angel food your cake
presents wrapped in moonbeams
all the angels helped to make ♥
♥ So I’ll whisper a little prayer today
asking everyone up above
to sing you a happy birthday song
and give you all our love ♥
thinking of you joanne on this your mam birthday
sending love to you and family love from simone xxx
Five Year Anniversary
It's been five long years since you left and missing you every day. Love you always.
Hugs and Kisses from Joanne, Damien, Emma Jane, Shaun, John, Laura, Baby Kelly, Robert.
WE LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU
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