"Wonderful celebration of her life": Clare Nowland's fond farewell
<p dir="ltr">Great-grandmother and beloved community member Clare Nowland will be farewelled in a “grand celebration” focusing on her extraordinary life, and not her tragic <a href="https://www.oversixty.com.au/news/news/clare-nowland-dies-officer-charged" target="_blank" rel="noopener">death</a> after being tasered by police.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Parish priest of St Patrick’s Catholic Church and a very close friend of Nowland, Father Croker, has told <em>The Daily Telegraph</em> that her funeral service will be held on June 13 from 11 am.</p>
<p dir="ltr">“It will be a very big funeral, no doubt … and that’s the family’s request that it’s a wonderful celebration of her life,” he revealed.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Nowland had lived a full life with 24 grandchildren and 31 great-grandchildren, who will be among the hundreds of mourners expected at the funeral service which will be held at St Patrick’s Church.</p>
<p dir="ltr">“Throughout her long life her faith was always so important to her … and of course, her large family,” he said.</p>
<p dir="ltr">He added that the great-grandmother had a passion for helping others, especially the other residents at their local nursing home.</p>
<p dir="ltr">“She was a very smart lady, always helping people … she would go each week, when her health was better, and feed the residents at a local nursing home.”</p>
<p dir="ltr">Nowland had suffered serious head injuries after being tasered by police at a Cooma Nursing home on May 17. She passed away peacefully a week later surrounded by her family.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Senior Constable Kristian White was <a href="https://www.oversixty.com.au/health/caring/new-details-emerge-on-clare-nowland-s-tasering" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended</a> and charged with recklessly causing grievous bodily harm, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and common assault.</p>
<p dir="ltr">He is due to face Cooma Local Court on July 5.</p>
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