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KILLARNEY Legion GAA Club has expressed its sympathies to the family of the late Diane Howe, who was laid to rest today and whose family has been involved with the club for many years.
Her son, Fr Michael, was the first Legion player to ever captain a Kerry minor team, in 1973, and, having impressed with St Brendan’s College and East Kerry, he played with the county at that level for two years, lining out alongside the likes of Mikey Sheehy, Seán Walsh, Pat Spillane, Denis Ogie Moran, Paidí Ó Sé and Lawrence O’Donoghue of Dr Crokes.
Fr Michael’s brothers, Joe, Francis and Brendan, and nephews Nicholas and Diarmuid, have been great stalwarts in the green and white jersey with Joe and Francis also excelling on the soccer fields.
Mrs Howe (née Fogarty) was very well known and popular in Killarney where her late husband, Frank, was station master at Killarney Railway Station for many years. He passed away in May 2017.
Before moving to Tullig in Spa, they lived for several years in the distinctive traditional stone station house, adjacent to the platform, and the Howe family were very familiar and welcoming faces to a whole generation of commuters arriving to and departing from Killarney.
Numerous messages of condolence have been posted on RIP.ie with friends, neighbours and acquaintances remembering Diana as a beautiful, kind, glamorous and witty woman who always extended a warm welcome to all she encountered.
Predeceased by Frank and their children Catherine and Laurence Patrick, Diana is survived by her adult children Michael, who is with the Columban Fathers and has spent his life on missionary work in Chile, Joe, Mary, Carmel (Mullane), Brendan, Siobhán (O’Keeffe), Frank and Deirdre.
She is further survived by her sons-in-law, daughters-in-law and her 13 grandchildren Orla, Nicholas, Luan, Mark, Alex, Sinéad, Diarmuid, Lorcan, Shane, Rebecca, Oisín, Emer and Grace.
Predeceased by her brother Marin and sister Bríd, she is mourned also by her brother Paddy, sisters Sr Margaret, Maura, Betty and Nancy, sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, relatives and a wide circle of friends.
The Requiem Mass was held in St Mary’s Cathedral this Tuesday morning with burial afterwards in Aghadoe Cemetery.
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