Isa MAGUIRE (4 Dec 1929 - 5 Jan 2021)

In loving memory of Isa MAGUIRE who sadly passed away on 5th January 2021.

Isa O’Neill, (mammy) was born in Buncrana, County Donegal, Ireland on the 4th December 1929.

She met, fell in love with and married Charlie Maguire (daddy) from Newtown Butler - a small village in County Fermanagh.

Not wasting any time, Isa gave birth to a healthy set of twins (Kathleen & William) and shortly after this, they both moved to Scotland and Glasgow. There, in St Ninians Street, together with Kathleen and William they raised a further 5 sons (Charles, Eugene, Terry, Seamus & Frank); before they moved once again to Castlemilk, where their last son, Des was born.

Isa was at the centre of the community and a pillar or the Church, St Margaret Mary’s. Isa became a Minister of the Eucharist and gave service to the parish and its congregation, assisting in providing holy communion to parishioners as well as the elderly and infirm or those who simply could not attend mass.

Isa always had a keen love of prose and writing and in 1987 she decided to go back to school to sit her Higher English qualification. Isa attended St Margaret Mary’s secondary school and even attended some of the same English classes as her son, Des. Isa really enjoyed the return to school and was triumphant in achieving an ‘B’ in her highers! What an achievement!

Isa & Charlie lived in their family home in 40 Arnprior Road for almost 60 years & it was only when the sad day came for Charlie to be with God in 2004, did he ever leave her side.

Mammy went through a number of personal challenges. She suffered from rheumatoid arthritis and in the early nineties had to undergo surgery on both knee caps, having them replaced by titanium caps. A few years later Isa also had to have a pacemaker and then many years later at the age of 88, she had a hip replacement. None of this ever shook her and nobody would have even known.

Some years after daddy’s passing, the sadness mammy felt started to manifest in dementia, and it was this which nearly took Isa away from her family in 2018 - but Isa pushed through this too with the same gusto and strength she had shown all her life and she was able to get back to some form of herself. In 2018 Isa left Arnprior and moved into the wonderful care of Roger Park, where the staff soon made friends with her and where Isa kept them all on their toes by her sharp (& cheeky) wit. Isa was loved by all the staff and the family have been hugely grateful for all the love and support provided by the extended family in Drybrough House.

Very late in 2020, Isa was struck by the terrible COVID virus and while she got through this, the recovery of it was too much for her to bear, and it finally allowed mammy to leave us and fall into the arms of her soulmate, and with God.

Isa leaves behind 6 sons and her only daughter. Together with her love, Charlie she also leaves a legacy of many grandchildren and great grandchildren with family stretching all across the world.

Isabel Margaret Maguire - the best wife, mammy, nana, great-nana, neighbour, friend anyone could ever hope to meet.

Always cherished and loved, never forgotten

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