Lois and her Irish-ness Digital Flip Book December 10, 2018

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hen ois was born on anuary 1 th 128 at home in 0 hipple treet, hicago her
grandmother, ary urphy, was present to give a helping hand. randma urphy, as she
was known, was her rishborn widowed grandmother who lived in the same rented two
flat on the second floor above her daughter, ae, and son in law, larence ohn. This
arrangement worked very well as ary was able to help ae generally but especially with
cooking meals and looking after oiss older sisters.
riginally, randma urphy chose Theresa as the middle name of her newest grandchild
and this was recorded in her birth certificate but
when she came to be baptied, her mother found that
she did not like the name and changed it to ita.
ois ita was baptied a fortnight later in ur ady
of ercy hurch on North Troy treet. randma
urphy, it is hoped, attended the service. The
decline of her health may have been evident at that
time, as she passed away shortly after on arch 2 rd ,
128, aged fiftyeight years. The cause of her death
was ndocarditis inflammation of the inner layer of
the heart following a bacterial infection and
rheumatic fever which means that her symptoms
would have been flulike feelings with fever or chills
and general weakness and weight loss. f ary had
these symptoms she could have been treated with
low dose antibiotics for the heart inflammation, but it
would appear this was not the case and her infection
progressed. he was buried on arch 2 th at alvary
emetery in vanston alongside her husband,
Figure rnm ur r ur
atrick, and son ichael, who had died thirty years before her in 18 and 188. n a third
grave on the eighty suare foot plot at ection , lock 20, ot N2 is atrick arkin who
died on arch 1 st 181 and was buried two days later. He was born circa 182 in reland,