Irish nurse remembered in Pakistan and Tarbert after ‘very interesting life’

A CORNER of Kerry is this week remembering one of its own who died after an eventful life in Pakistan which saw her become a tribal elder, member of the national assembly and friend to the powerful.

The death of Jennifer Musa, aged 90, led to many tributes being paid in Pakistan and beyond by those who recalled her courage, determination and influence.

Yet in Tarbert, Co Kerry, they remembered a woman born Bridget (Bridie) Wren in November of 1917, who left in the 1930s to train as a nurse in England. One of a family of seven, she changed her name to Jennifer and met future husband Qazi Mohammed Musa at a ball in Oxford.