AT 90 years of age, Kitty McNamara has the look and the attitude of a woman who is going to live forever.
But her independence and love of life didn’t stop her being gobsmacked when she walked into a bar to find nearly 60 family and friends gather for a surprise birthday party.
Among the gathering to celebrate the big 9-0 were grandchildren and great grandchildren she was meeting for the first time last week.
“She didn’t know what to say,” her daughter Sandie Casey told the Limerick Post.
Among the gathering were Kitty’s daughters, Sandie and Karen McMullen, who had returned from the USA for the event and her sons Robert, Gerard, and Derek McNamara, along with Greg McNamara who was home from the UK. Not to mention 36 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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“She’s very independent. She lives alone and she goes to Milford every week and does art classes. She’s a very good artist and she really enjoys it,” Sandie proudly told this newspaper.
“But I believe what really keep her so healthy and youthful is that he goes out every day, she’s always out. She walks every day.”
A Treaty City woman from birth, having been bought up on Casey’s Road, Sandie says her mother wasn’t expecting the secretly arranged celebration.
“She was stunned – but she really enjoyed it and she loved seeing everybody. She’s a real character,” said Sandie.
