A COUPLE with very strong Killarney roots, who have dedicated their lives to helping communities in Kerry in memory of their beloved daughter, has made two major donations to worthy local causes.
Dick and Eibhlin Henggeler established a fund following the sad passing, in 2014, of their daughter, Dorothy, a former Washington Rose.
Bubbly Dorothy, who loved her mum’s home town of Killarney and was laid to rest alongside her sister in Aghadoe, fought a brave battle with cancer in a manner than captutred the imagination of the public in both Ireland and the US.
Dick and Eibhlin, who purchased Fels Point Hotel in Tralee as a tribute to their former Rose daughter, have now donated €10,000 to the Kerry Cork Health Link Bus and a further €5,000 to the Donal Walsh #LiveLife Foundation.
The Community Foundation for Ireland manages the family’s charitable work and has distributed grants to many local and national organisations in recent months.
The Henggeler family acquired Fels Point earlier this year and it will be redeveloped as a permanent home for the Rose of Tralee festival as well as an international conference centre. Dorothy was the popular Washington Rose in 2011.
