Mourners pay tribute to Florence, a woman ‘endowed with grace and charm’

The Alzheimer Society of Ireland and its carers were yesterday poignantly thanked for the help they gave finance minister Michael Noonan’s wife Florence, who died from the disease last Thursday, 14 years after the illness had gripped her life at the age of 54.

Mourners pay tribute to Florence, a woman ‘endowed with grace and charm’
Mon, 27 Feb, 2012 - 00:00
Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent

The couple’s son Michael Jr singled out carers “Mary, Jessie, Kathleen” and the Alzheimer’s centre in Adare who “offered her friendship and companion ship”.

He also remembered the carers “who continued to visit mam after she left the family home” and Professor Declan Lyons for his care of their mother.

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