Elaine Farthing

What a wonderful woman! Inspiring, loving and loveable, with a generous heart and spirit and a bright intelligence. How she endured what was inflicted upon her I will never know. I am so sorry that she has died so young. She was a strong bright shining star who will never fade in the hearts of those who knew her. May she rest in peace. I extend my sincere condolences to Elaine’s family and friends.

Elaine was brave and feisty woman who spent a lifetime fighting to overcome a brutal childhood "in care". She was in Nazareth House Derry with my late sister Annette. She was generous to a fault. Gone too soon.
May she rest in peace.

l grow up with Elaine and her sister carol may she rest in peace.forever young.god bless.xxx

I am so very sorry to learn of the untimely death of Elaine Farthing. She was a woman of tremendous courage who used her energies to make a life for herself. She was both fragile and strong at the same time. I remember her in Derry, tiny, edgy, restless of habit, boyish, with short dark hair and her leather bomber jacket. She loved photographs and video. She turned up, supported causes. She had a short, loud, rather nervous laugh. She always seemed to have somewhere to go.

And she went, to San Francisco, to Barcelona where she no doubt found her people, just as she did in Derry.
She died too young. Her early years were a travesty. Whether their gods forgive the people in religious life who torture defenceless children or not, I can’t.

But I can admire those who, like Elaine, fight with every fibre of their being to recover their sense of their own humanity, their own loveable-ness. It is just so wrong that they must spend so many years and work that hard to undo what was done to them in the name of ‘care’.

May she rest in peace and may we remember her as a woman of courage and spirit. I aspire, as she did to a world where all children are cherished and protected, without regard to the circumstances of their birth.