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Beatrice Gunning 2017
he last time we spoke with Beatrice Gunning was only a few short months ago…
A grand day out…
There she was, happy as can be, sunning herself outside La Touche Wines, laughing and joking with her kids, her friends and anyone who cared to stop for a chat.
It was somewhat handy that you could pop a bottle of champagne standing outside this popular evening hangout and hit the front door of Beatrice’s house with the cork.
Very handy.
Learning just now that this icon of the town passed on Saturday night, at the grand old age of 92, certainly makes us feel like we need a drink.
We had the pleasure of spending an afternoon with this deep-rooted Greystonian last year, and it made us realise just how deep those roots go.
Beatrice Gunning, Kathleen Martin, Mrs D. Mitchell, Mr & Mrs Sean Groome 1983
Beatrice’s signature is on many of the town’s institutions, being one of the founders of The Greystones Active Retirement Association, our Credit Union, St. David’s National School and Greystones Cancer Support.
To name but four of the reasons Beatrice Gunning made Greystones a better place to live in.
Emmet McGarry, Noreen Kenrick, John Moloney, Beatrice, Joe Devoy, Kathleen Smith, Kay Dunne & Peter Deane
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Beatrice Gunning was a lovely lady I got to know her a few year’s ago
I met her in a Coffee Shop in Greystones, we got talking and I have to
Say she was a lovely person to talk to, I want to say to her family and
Friends we are sorry to lose a lovely person may she rest in peace
A feisty lady. A true original. I think I’m correct in saying she was the oldest Greystones person still living in the house she had been born in, How appropriate, too, that GG should carry an item about Greystones Rowing Club at the same time; her late husband John was secretary of the rowing club in the early 1950s. A great sportsman; like my own father, Jim Hayden, who always stopped with Beatrice and John and family when he came on holidays after our parents and our Aunt Eileen , and younger family members had to move to England in 1957. May she be re-united with her beloved John now in perpetual peace.
Jago Hayden
Beatrice Gunning was much loved and will always be remembered. A stalwart supporter of activities in Greystones and a champion for their causes. Indeed, a champion for us all. She will be much missed. The whole town has many fond memories of her.