Norah Maddison 1st January 1962 - 3rd June 1999
Most members will already know of the death of Norah Maddison in an accident at Pembroke and will have been shocked and saddened by the news. The circumstances of the incident, as best we know, are that she was climbing at Saddle Head and had abseiled down with Sue Marsden to do a climb. Once they'd finished they found that on pulling up the abseil rope it was jammed. Norah went down on the abseil rope to try to free it. After some time without communication, Sue looked over to see what was going on and saw Norah lying at the bottom of the cliff. The rescue services were called but Norah was already past help. She was still correctly attached to the rope and there were no witnesses to the accident.
We may never know what happened to cause Norah to fall to the ground.
Norah's funeral was held in Armagh, Thursday 10th June and a Memorial Mass held in Salford on the 24th June. A collection for her raised over £250 and was donated to CAFOD.
