Girlfriend of man killed during Storm Eowyn said he was ‘the love of my life’
Girlfriend of man killed during Storm Eowyn said he was ‘the love of my life’
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The girlfriend of a young man killed during Storm Eowyn described him as “the love of my life” who she planned to marry and start a family with, mourners have heard. Kacper Dudek, 20, was killed when a tree fell on his car in Co Donegal as the record winds swept across Ireland.
He was driving home from work when the incident took place at around 5.30am on Friday January 24 before a Status Red warning came into effect in Co Donegal at 7am. He had been on the phone to his father minutes beforehand after coming across a fallen tree.
At his funeral mass at St Patrick’s Church on Thursday, students from Holy Cross College in Strabane, Co Tyrone, which Mr Dudek had attended, performed a guard of honour as his coffin was carried into the church. Fr Ignacy Saniuta, a priest of Polish heritage in the Derry Diocese, told the congregation that Mr Dudek’s death had left “a deep void in our hearts” and was “a great loss”.
“He will be remembered as a young man full of joy, passion and love for others. Kacper was a loving son, brother, boyfriend and friend who knew how to share love, kindness and warmth with those he cared about,” Fr Saniuta said. He is survived by his father Artur and mother Katarzyna, younger brother Karol, younger sister Weronika, and girlfriend Molly, who was described as “the most important love in his life”.
A love letter Molly had sent to Mr Dudek was read to the congregation during the mass. “I am content knowing I’ve met the love of my life, the man I’m going to marry and have our babies with, and grow old. Both of us will go grey, old, wrinkly and flabby, we will have races in our wheelchairs and be rude to people and get away with it,” it read.
