Picture: Valerie O’Sullivan
THE death has occurred in Killarney of Kathleen O’Sullivan (née Randles) of Loreto Road who has been laid to rest following Requiem Mass in St Mary’s Cathedral this Tuesday afternoon.
Born in 1939 and the youngest in a family of 11, from Clontoo, Kilgarvan, she will be remembered as a gentle, intelligent, witty and very kind lady who always had a good word for others and for whom family meant everything.
Deeply spiritual and a familiar face at services in St Mary’s Cathedral down through the years, Kathleen was married to the late Noel O’Sullivan, from Ballingeary, a brilliant Irish and Latin teacher at St Brendan’s College, who was vice president at the school at the time of his sudden and untimely death in 1988.
In a wonderful tribute to his mother on social media, son Noel said she had excelled academically and she had a lifelong passion for the arts and for political literature, fiction and creative writing.
“Mom wrote one particular story which was before its time, written in the seventies, about a woman who wins the Queen of Fashion at the Killarney Races, only for the woman to turn out to be a man. It was a widely enjoyed piece and didn’t put a single nose out of joint,” Noel said.
Kathleen took great pride in the many achievements of her very talented children and the huge success of primary school teacher, Noel, when he spearheaded the tremendous Teen Spirit project, which packed venue after venue a number of years ago, was a particular source of delight.
Kathleen is survived by her daughter Catriona, sons Denis, Cathal and Noel and grandchildren Ben, Thomas, Catriona, Conor, Cora, Noah and Tori.
She is further survived by her daughters-in-law Sarah and Jan, son-in-law Tim Clarke, her brothers Felix and Stephen, sisters Peg and Mary, brother-in-law Eoin, sisters-in-law Ettie and Josephine, nephews, nieces, other relatives and many friends.
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