Born in Inkerman, she was the daughter of the late John and Mary Bonner Gilroy. Miss Gilroy was employed as a housekeeper for her late brother, Rev. Leo V. Gilroy, who at the time of his death in 1965, was pastor of St. Ann’s Church, Freeland. For the past five years she made her home in Pittston where she was a member of St. John the Evangelist Church.
Surviving are brothers, William F., Pittston, and Raymond, Washington, D. C.; a sister, Sister Madeline, IHM, Marian Convent, Scranton.
The funeral will be held from the Donnelly Funeral Home, 802 Susquehanna Ave., West Pittston, Saturday at 9 with a Requiem Mass at 9:30 in St. John the Evangelist Church. Interment will be in St. Catherine’s Cemetery, Moscow.
Viewing Friday, 2 to 4 and 7 to 10 p. m.
Times-Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (Thursday) - December 10, 1970