A native of Enniskillen, Mollie was born in Breandrum in August 1925. She was the fifth child of the three sons and three daughters of Sydney Wilson and Bella Brooks.

    She was educated at Enniskillen Model School and the Collegiate Grammar School - taking Junior Certificate in 1940 and Senior Certificate in 1942. She joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in October 1942 and served in the A.T.S. until she was demobbed.

    Mollie decided to train as a teacher and attended Larkfield Training College, Belfast, for two years.

    She began teaching at Enniskillen Model School and became Head of the Infant Department after the retirement of Mrs. Sadie Wilson.

    Mollie remained at the Model for the rest of her career and retired in 1985. In August 1954, she married Reggie Cowan, Head of the Engineering Department at Enniskillen Technical School, now Fermanagh College. They had two daughters, Deborah and Lesley, who were born in 1956 and 1958, and they made their home in Algeo Drive, Enniskillen.

    Mollie pursued a wide range of interests, was an avid reader and loved foreign travel.

    In the 1960s, she and Reggie were both involved with the Cathedral Amateur Dramatic Society and Mollie acted in productions of "Wild Decembers" and "A Passage to India."

    They were both members of the Fermanagh Field Club, Fermanagh Gardening Society and the Fermanagh Ramblers.

    Mollie was secretary for the Old Collegians and Chairwoman of the Fermanagh Flower Arranging Society.

    She was very fond of walking with her friends in the Sligo and Leitrim hills, while she and Reggie walked with Lesley in the Scottish Highlands and French and Swiss Alps.

    Mollie enjoyed an active retirement with Reggie until he became ill in March 1998. His death in February 1999 was a great loss. However, she gradually rebuilt her life with the help of her valued friends.

    She visited the Lakeland Forum in Enniskillen four times weekly to swim and use the Fitness Room.

    Computing was another interest and she was interested in foreign languages taking G.C.S.E.s in Italian and Spanish at the ages of 75 and 76.

    She continued to walk and climbed Mam Tor and Kinderscout in the Peak District in August, 2001.

    She became unwell in October, 2002 and left Enniskillen to reside with her daughter, Deborah in Sheffield.

    Her funeral service, led by Precentor Brian Courtney, took place at St. Macartin's Cathedral, Enniskillen on Sunday past, April 27.

    The hymns were "Immortal Invisible" and "Be Thou My Vision."

    Her son-in-law, Anthony Crawley read from Ecclesiastes 3. Burial took place at Breandrum Cemetery, Enniskillen.

    Mollie is survived by her daughter, Deborah, and husband, Anthony, Sheffield; and her daughter, Lesley and husband, Eric, Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland; and her grandchildren, Jonathan, Nicolas, Ailith and Elizabeth.

    She also leaves her brothers and sisters: Kathleen (Kay), Olive, Leslie and Brian; her nieces, nephews, the wider family circle and her friends.

    She was predeceased by her husband, Reggie and her brother, Sydney. The funeral arrangements were by W.T. Morrison, Darling Street, Enniskillen.