Anyone who has in the past habituated the streets of Dunderry and Churchtown in particular in recent years cannot but have come across Lillian walking her dog regularly on the roads .particularly on the Retaine Road ,which even today is fairly quiet.Day after day and season after season she graced these roads.Most of us knew she had cancer and all of us hoped that she would overcome it.Certainly you felt that such was the exemplary life lived by this lady that God would have to cut her some slack.And if there is anyone sounder nor her husband Mickey I have yet to meet him .The Weldons are amongst the most decent of people and their big kids now Ronan and Paul are cut from this cloth.
She was a Shiels from Kilmessan abnd I hear that her father was killed demolishing Trim Jail in the 1950.s but might be wrong.
She hasn't been around in recent months and while there is no convenient time to die it is my understanding that it was not unexpected .
Her neighbourly chastisement of Dot over her wandering hens and Dot's over Lilian's snooping dog are long since forgotten and I spotted Vince out today tidying the hedges and road on the funeral route.
She couldn't but have good neighbours as she herself was a rare one.And I hear that they did all they could for herself and Mickey in recent months.
Personally I didn't know her very well but as there is no such thing as a bad Weldon I know from her demeanour that she was of he highest standard and the most decent of women.
She is being waked tomorrow Wednesday from 2.00 to 9.00 in their house in Churchtown and will arrive in Dunderry Church on Thursday at 30 minutes past Noon for the Funeral Mass.
AR Dheis De go raibh a hANAM DILIS.
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