Margaret MacKinnon

Peggie, as she was always known, was born at Bousd on the 21st September 1908 and died on the 29th of September 1994.

Her schooling was at Bousd and she remembered enjoying lessons, especially with Mr Fowler from Inverness-shire. On fine days he would take the children to the beach and there they would practise their letters and numbers with sticks on the sand.

On leaving school she went to work at Ballyhough, then one of the many farms engaged in the famous Coll Cheese industry.

After a spell on the mainland where her fine singing voice contributed to the success of the Edinburgh Gaelic choir, she returned to her native isle.

In her latter years Peggie was very much part of a Village day - particularly a boat day. Her familiar figure, shopping bag and stick in hand, coming along the street, sometimes painfully crubach, is sadly missed.

One of her favourite savings was "You have got to he cheery!" This was used even on the darkest, windiest Winter days when the ferry missed.

She was a loveable, independent character who, even up to the last kept a look out, with a twinkle in her eye, for the next bonnie boat on the horizon.

JD & MH