Chloe Hipson and four friends were killed in a road accident last month in Dundalk, Co LouthHer partner AJ had planned to propose on Christmas Eve and had sought permission from her father and brother
Mourners gathered today to remember Chloe Hipson (21), who was from Bellshill in North Lanarkshire and had been studying at the Dundalk Institute of Technology.
The crash took place on the night of Saturday November 15.
The friends were on their way to a night out in Dundalk when the Volkswagen Golf they were in collided with another car.
Chloe Hipson (Photo: rip.ie)
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As well as Ms Hipson, those killed were: Chloe McGee (23), and Shay Duffy (21), both from Carrickmacross in Co Monaghan; Alan McCluskey (23), from Drumconrath in Co Meath; and Dylan Commins (23), from Ardee in Co Louth.
Rev Peter Davidge, who conducted today’s service, told mourners that Ms Hipson’s partner, AJ Finlay, who survived the crash, had been planning to propose to her on Christmas Eve having sought permission from her father and brother.
Chloe Hipson’s partner AJ Finlay arriving for the funeral mass at Daldowie Crematorium in Glasgow. (Photo: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)
Rev Davidge continued: “She, as you know, lost her life so absolutely tragically alongside some other wonderful young people – her pals Alan, Chloe, Shay and Dylan.
“We, today here in Scotland, think of all their families. And of those beautiful young people.”
The funeral service at Daldowie crematorium near Glasgow heard how Ms Hipson “fell in love” with Ireland and was “flourishing” there.
She moved to Co Monaghan in April of this year and took her dog, Poppy, with her.
Tragic friends, clockwise from left, Chloe McGee, Alan McCluskey, Shay Duffy, Chloe Hipson and Dylan Commins
Rev Davidge said she had quickly found new friends and made it her new home.
“She was thriving and she was happy, and she was not scared to try out new things.”
He continued: “I think everyone spoke of Chloe as the most perfect person in the family. She never argued with anyone, she just got on with life.”
The coffin arrived in a white horse-drawn carriage (Photo: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)
Friends and family had raised more than £30,000 (€34,000) to repatriate her body to Scotland.
Mourners today filled the hall as her white coffin was brought into the crematorium, with the service being livestreamed.
The coffin, adorned with flowers, arrived in a white horse-drawn carriage.
The hearse arriving with floral tributes (Photo: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)
Remembering her early life, Rev Davidge said she took to football and played with Hamilton Accies as a young girl, wearing “pink boots and sparkly hair bows”.
After leaving Bellshill Academy, she went into work and later began to study quantity surveying at South Lanarkshire College in East Kilbride.
“She had a very strong work ethic, which I think was a defining thing about Chloe – she’d try anything,” he told mourners.
She travelled frequently and was in Seville for Rangers’ Europa League final in 2022.
Mourners were shown pictures and video clips of Ms Hipson’s life.
Rev Davidge also read a poem titled Chloe, written by some of her friends in Ireland.
The song Jealous Of The Angels was played as curtains were drawn on her coffin.
Giving a prayer, Rev Davidge said: “We think of Chloe – for always perfect, for always 21, for always just a lovely person.”