{"id":382390,"date":"2026-04-05T00:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/382390\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T00:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:03:07","slug":"death-notice-of-elizabeth-betty-king-nee-whiriskey-birr-offaly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/382390\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Notice of Elizabeth (Betty) King (n\u00e9e Whiriskey) (Birr, Offaly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth (fondly known as Betty) King, n\u00e9e Whiriskey, Riverstown, Birr, Co. Offaly and formerly of Fiddane, Ardrahan, Co. Galway, April 4th, 2026, in her 95th year, after a short illness. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Predeceased by her beloved husband Peter, son Charles, grandson Aidan, sister Ann, brother Michael, sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sadly and forever missed by her daughter Mary, sons Paul, Seamus and Clement, son-in-law Paul, daughters-in-law Mary, Sarah and Deirdre, her adored grandchildren; Sarah, Aislinn, Rachel, Joe, Cathal, Peter, Eoin, Sadbh and Niamh, her brothers; John, Charles, Willie, Frank, Clement and Stan, sisters- in-law; Mary, Eithne, Dawn, Maura, Kathleen and Margaret, nephews, nieces, extended family, neighbours, friends and her card playing friends. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">May she Rest in Peace. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reposing at Boyd\u2019s Funeral Home, Birr on Monday, April 6th, from 5pm &#8211; 7pm. <\/p>\n<p>Funeral Mass on Tuesday, April 7th, in St. Brendan\u2019s Church, Birr, at 12 noon followed by burial in Carrig Cemetery. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">House Private Please. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Family flowers only please, donations in desired to AWARE<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Funeral Mass will be live streamed on:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stbrendans.birr<\/p>\n<p>Facebook page: Brendan Birr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elizabeth (fondly known as Betty) King, n\u00e9e Whiriskey, Riverstown, Birr, Co. Offaly and formerly of Fiddane, Ardrahan, Co.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-382390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}