Hugh and the family of the late Rois Gribbin (nee Moran) RIP, wish to express our sincere gratitude and heartfelt thanks to everyone who sympathised and supported us in our recent bereavement, of a beloved wife, mother, mother-in-law, nana, sister, sister-in-law and friend.

Sincere thank you and appreciation to Rev Pat O’Hagan PP for his spiritual guidance, preparation and celebration of Rois’ Beautiful Requiem Funeral Mass. A special thank you to Fr. Mc Keever, Fr. Madden and Fr. O’Laverty for concelebrating in Rois’ Funeral Mass. Thank you to Fr. O’Laverty and Fr. Eastwood, who attended Rois in The Cancer Centre, Belfast and bestowed onto her the Most Holy Eucharist. Thank you to Monsignor O’ Byrne, Monsignor Dolan, Fr. Fox, Fr. Devlin and Fr Finnegan, for their pastoral advice, counsel and blessings.

To the Gribbin and Moran families, for their love, support and kindness, we are eternally grateful. Thank you to our friends and neighbours in the Broagh and wider community circle. To the many people who paid their respects at our family home and attended the Requiem Funeral Mass, we sincerely thank you.

To the Divine Mercy Prayer Group, thank you for your prayers and support. Sincere thanks to Teresa Bell and Mickey Higgins, for imparting the St. Pio relic and glove to Rois. To all those who offered up Masses and prayers, sent Mass cards, sympathy cards, religious gifts, phoned our home and posted messages of condolences, we are so grateful.

Thank you to those who kindly provided tea and food throughout the wake, to the stewards of St. Malachy’s GAC, Castledawson, who gave of their time so generously and to our club, for their invaluable assistance.

For all those who took part in Rois’ Funeral Mass, our niece Edel Gribbin, for her beautiful singing, accompanied by Peter Mc Erlean, to the readers, the Eucharistic Ministers, John Michael, sacristan and the stewards, we are sincerely grateful. We also thank the volunteers who provided the exceptional catering in the Open Door Complex.

We wish to express our sincere thank you to McCusker Brothers Funeral Directors, for the dignified and professional manner in which they carried out Rois’ funeral arrangements. Thanks to all those involved in preparing Rois’ final resting place and to Gerard’s Flowers, for Rois’ beautiful bouquet.

Our heartfelt gratitude to all the doctors, nurses and staff of The Cancer Centre, Belfast, especially Ward 2A and Antrim Area Hospital, Ward A1, as well as Castledawson Surgery. Thank you to Rois’ paramedics, home carers and Charis Cancer Care. We will be forever indebted to you for your utmost care, compassion, kindness and dignity, during Rois’ illness.

As it is impossible to thank everyone individually, we trust that this acknowledgement will be accepted as a token of our sincere appreciation and gratitude. Rois’ Months Mind Mass will be celebrated on Friday 18th October at 7pm in St. Mary’s Church, Bellaghy and can be viewed on the Parish webcam.

‘‘O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of mercy for us, I trust in You’’