The death has occurred of Anthony Fleming Dromulton, Currow, Co. Kerry.
He died unexpectedly at home on August 27th. 2024 with his family by his side . Predeceased by his mother Hanna.
Anthony (73) was an employee of T.H. Murphy’s, Hardware and Builders’ Providers, Main Street, Castleisland.
Sadly missed and fondly remembered by his sister Margaret Brosnan, brother-in-law Mattie, niece Siobhán, nephew Mossie, relatives, neighbours and many friends and most especially those in the GAA community. May His Gentle Soul Rest In Peace.
Showing Glass and Gas Expertise at T.H.’s
It was at the hardware counter at T.H. Murphy’s that Tony Fleming showed his expertise with a glass cutter in his hand.
In the day’s before double glazing and nearly impossible to break panes of glass, there was a flimsy 16 ounce and even 32 ounce panes that put up little or no resistance to a belt of a wayward football.
Anthony ‘Tony’ Fleming and T.H’s were the first to come to mind after the realisation of the disaster and the splinters were all cleaned up.
He Knew his Trade
That he knew his trade was further emphasised by the fact that he asked before dipping a hand into the barrel of either the posh teak putty or the ordinary white variety. He knew exactly, and to the ounce, by the size of the pane he had just cut how much of a fist of the linseed oil smelling glazing material he’d give you. The putty he’d wrap in a kind of grease proof paper and then a page of newspaper – with a pinch of short panel pins to complete the job.
He was also a gas man in that T.H’s were agents for Calor Gas and there was a lot of involvement by staff members in fitting new cookers and repairing old lines and educating new users to the ways of gas.
There was commercial life for Tony too after T.H. Murphy’s. He bought and operated a small ice-cream machine and he was a regular sight on Banna Beach during the summers of the late 1980s.
Tony’s Funeral Arrangements
Reposing at Tangney’s Funeral Home, Church Street, Castleisland on Wednesday evening from 6pm to 8pm.
Funeral arriving to the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Currow on Thursday morning for Requiem Mass at 11am . Burial afterwards in St. Michael’s Cemetery, Killeentierna, Currow . The Mass will be live-streamed on www.churchservices.tv/coticcurrow
Date Published: Tuesday, August 27th 2024. Date of Death: Tuesday, August 27th 2024.
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