Power, Patricia (nee Cleere)
August 26, 2011
The Cleere family of Kilmanagh has once again been touched by tragedy. This follows the death at 39 years of age of Mrs Patricia Power (nee Cleere), Tingarren, Callan after a long battle with serious illness.
She leaves behind her loving husband Michael and children Claire, Michelle, Kate and Aoife, loving father, Simon, sisters, Joanne, Angela, Roisin, Bernadette and Margaret, brothers-in-law, uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews, cousins, relatives and many many friends.
She was laid to rest at Ballykeeffe cemetery after requiem mass in St Molua's Church, Killaloe. She lost her battle for life in Marymount Hospice in Cork on Tuesday, August 9 where she was surrounded by her husband Michael, her father Simon, her sisters Joanna, Angela, Roisin, Bernadette and Margaret and other family members. She went gently to be reunited with her mother Joan and her sister Marie. It was the final stage of a three year long battle with cancer that attacked her body but never succeeded in breaking her spirit.
She fought the illness with courage and fortitude in hospitals in Kilkenny and Waterford but most of all in her family home in Tingarron with love and care lavished on her by Michael, Claire, Michelle, Kate and Aoife and with help from their extended families and friends. Though dying at the young age of 39, Patricia has left a truly remarkable legacy of unselfish love and devotion towards her nieces Claire, Michelle and Kate. When their mother Marie died in tragic circumstances in 1999 Patricia without a thought for her own future gave up her life in Kilkenny city and became their adopted mother where she cared for them in their own home in Killaloe. In 2003 Patricia married Michael, moved to Tingarron and their family was completed with the birth of Aoife in 2004. All four girls are a shining example of the type of successful and caring person that Patricia was. Patricia was born the fourth of seven girls to Joan and Simon Cleere in 1972.
Her main sport as a teenager was camogie where she hurled with the same level of passion and commitment that Simon had shown on the hurling fields in the 1950s and 60s. She was blessed with a wonderful personality and spread happineses wherever she went.
- Courtesy of Kilkenny People, 26th August 2011
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