Her husband Kevin Healy said: “We are all devastated by Deirdre’s death. My unopened Valentine card to her states on the front ‘Life is such an adventure with you by my side’.”
He thanked all the people who had been in touch with him since she died but paid special tribute to and thanked the ambulance personnel “who came to my house and brought Deirdre to hospital and the wonderful doctors and nurses at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda. Their courtesy, care, and professionalism made what was unbearable seem to be bearable.
“But the person she loved maybe more than anyone was Kevin,” he said. He had been “her constant companion, her friend, her confidante, her North Star, a wonderful husband, a great Dad, a great step-Dad, an amazing Grandad, a man I am so happy and grateful to have seen come into my mother’s life as well as ours.
“No words that I can say or anyone else would say will make it all go away. It won’t. Death, in a sense, is a final curtain. There is hope. The purpose of our requiem Mass is to pray for the person who has died but it is also a Mass where we include the family and the relatives and the friends,” he said.
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