Tributes to popular Bellaghy woman
Alice McElwee s daughter paid her an emotional tribute at her funeral on Tuesday.
Alice McElwee, who passed away at the weekend.
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Tributes have been paid to a well-known County Derry mother-of-sixteen who passed away over the weekend.
Alice McElwee had 38 grandchildren, 22 great grandchildren and 16 children of her own, including triplets who died in infancy, and Thomas, who died in the 1981 hunger strike.
The Bellaghy woman s daughter Pauline paid an emotional tribute to her mother at her funeral yesterday.
She told mourners how Alice was a private woman, but one who fully embraced her life.