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Ullapool stalwart has given so much to community

Congratulations and very best wishes to Ullapool-born and bred Mary Catherine Mackenzie who recently celebrated her eightieth birthday.

Mary was born in Ullapool, the eldest child of Kenneth Mackenzie (Buie) who was from Letters and Dora Mackenzie (nee Maclean) of Ullapool. Her mother’s father John Maclean was one of the people evicted from Leckmelm in the early 1880s by the new proprietor, Aberdeen paper merchant Alexander Pirie.

Like her father, Mary was deeply involved in village life. She ran the Girl Guides, she was the organist in the Church of Scotland for many years and she was the Sunday School superintendent.

Mary is a great source of knowledge about Lochbroom. She is always the first port of call when information about its past is needed and she never fails to come up with the answer. I can vouch for her incredible memory. She told me the exact colour of the suit my mother was wearing when she was standing as a godmother sixty years ago in the Church of Scotland!

Full story at the Ross-shire Journal.