Obituary: Peggy Munro, 103

Tributes have been paid to Peggy Munro who has died at the age of 103.

Her family celebrated her long, happy life at a mass at St Andrews Church in Livingston, with a floral tribute of 103 yellow roses on her coffin last week.

Mrs Munro lived with her eldest daughter, Sheila, in Howden for the last 15 years of her life.

She said: "She was ready to go. She said to me the night before she died, 'I'm going to die'.

"She was here with me and she died in her own bed. She wasn't in any pain and she just slipped away nicely in her own good time.

"Her quality of life wasn't very good at the end and she had no power in her legs at all for the last two weeks."

Mrs Munro, the eldest of seven children, was born on July 11, 1907, and was brought up In Blackfriars Street.

She attended St Ann's School in the Cowgate and later worked at the city's Nelson's bookbinders.

On September 26, 1935, she married the late Theodore Munro at St Patrick's Church in the Cowgate after he had converted to Catholicism to marry her.

The couple had two children, Sheila, 67, and Maureen, 64, four grandchildren, Gerald, 45, Fiona, 42, Mark, 40, and Laura, 29, and four great-grandchildren, Ashley, 21, Kayleigh, 18, George, ten, and Ryan, six.

Mr and Mrs Munro lived in various areas of Edinburgh including Carrick Knowe, Corstorphine, Sighthill and Broombank Terrace.

Mr Munro worked as a baker in his first job at Mackie's on Princes Street. He took early retirement from his job as a baker at the government buildings in Broomhouse at the age of 63 and died from lung cancer two weeks after his 65th birthday.

Mrs Munro left her last home in Carrick Knowe to move in with Sheila in 1995.

Her family will remember how she never expected to outlive her husband by very long.

Sheila said: "When my father was dying, she said, 'I'll not be long after you' and he just said 'ah Peggy, give me a wee bit of peace'.

"My mum always said she didn't know why she was still here when he wasn't.

"The family are sad that she's no longer here with us, but she lived a good life so there is nothing to really be sad about.

"She was a lovely, lovely lady, always so kind. Even on the night she died, she asked me if my back was sore. She was always caring for others and thinking about other people."