THE remains of an Irish missionary killed in a recent bomb blast in Uganda will be buried in Soweto today, the organisation, The Family Africa, said.
Marie Smith, 51, was a Johannesburg resident for 20 years before moving to Uganda two months ago to be a lay missionary, spokesperson Jake Aird said.
Aird said Smith was cremated in Kampala last Friday and her eldest son Benjamin travelled to South Africa with her remains.
Aird said her ashes would be interred at St Paul's Anglican Church, at Ipelegeng Centre in White City Jabavu, at 10am today.
Smith is one of 76 people who were killed while watching the Soccer World Cup final in a restaurant in Kampala when a bomb exploded.
Before her relocation, she had devoted her time in South Africa to working with the poor and disadvantaged in Johannesburg.
Irish ambassador to Uganda Kevin Kelly described Smith as "the sort of person who makes one proud to be Irish in Africa". "Marie died as she had lived, in the continent she loved, surrounded by the people she loved," Aird said.
Smith, who spoke fluent isiZulu, Setswana and Swahili, was widowed in the 1980s and then gave her time to Africa and dedicated her life to the service of God and others, he said.
Soweto burial for Uganda blast victim
THE remains of an Irish missionary killed in a recent bomb blast in Uganda will be buried in Soweto today, the organisation, The Family Africa, said.
Marie Smith, 51, was a Johannesburg resident for 20 years before moving to Uganda two months ago to be a lay missionary, spokesperson Jake Aird said.
Aird said Smith was cremated in Kampala last Friday and her eldest son Benjamin travelled to South Africa with her remains.
Aird said her ashes would be interred at St Paul's Anglican Church, at Ipelegeng Centre in White City Jabavu, at 10am today.
Smith is one of 76 people who were killed while watching the Soccer World Cup final in a restaurant in Kampala when a bomb exploded.
Before her relocation, she had devoted her time in South Africa to working with the poor and disadvantaged in Johannesburg.
Irish ambassador to Uganda Kevin Kelly described Smith as "the sort of person who makes one proud to be Irish in Africa". "Marie died as she had lived, in the continent she loved, surrounded by the people she loved," Aird said.
Smith, who spoke fluent isiZulu, Setswana and Swahili, was widowed in the 1980s and then gave her time to Africa and dedicated her life to the service of God and others, he said.
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