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""Mary was proud to be a Hearts supporter and was well known to many people at the club" Hearts spokesman"

By JOHN GIBSON and NICK JURY

SHE hardly missed a match in almost 70 years of supporting Hearts.

So when devoted fan Mary White died last week, her family decided there was only one place to scatter her ashes.

 

Mary, who took ill with a brain tumour on her 91st birthday in October, passed away at the Marie Curie Hospice on Friday.

 

She will be cremated at Warriston Crematorium on Monday, along with her maroon scarf, before her ashes are scattered at Tynecastle.

 

Mary, from Stenhouse, had been a fan of the Gorgie club since 1938.

 

Her daughter, Anne White, 50, from Broomhall, said: "Mum had been going to the football since she was a teenager and supported the club all her life. We're having her ashes scattered on the pitch because she would have wanted that.

 

"The only time she stayed away was when there was trouble with casuals. Mum was a real dyed-in-the-wool Jambo and loved nothing more than talking about following the team back to Gorgie in 1956 after winning the cup with me on her shoulders. She and dad lived and breathed Hearts."

 

A season-ticket holder, she still managed to get to every home game until taking ill, with her granddaughters Alana and Stephanie, and niece Laura Wood, as well as sometimes managing to travel to away games.

 

Laura, 50, of South Gyle Wynd, said: "The Hearts was in her blood and she'd get passionate about it. She could be vocal sometimes when she didn't agree with a referee's decision, and if she didn't like something happening in the team, she'd say so. Auntie Mary supported all the new players, but her favourites were the legendary Willie Bauld and Dave MacKay in the 1950s."

 

Her passion for Hearts started as a young woman, when with her father and four brothers she would go to Tynecastle. In those days it cost between 1/6 (7.5p) and 2/6 (12.5p) for a ticket, and she would go as often as she could. Her late husband Rob was also a supporter, and because he often had

to work nights, she would use his season ticket to see the club, before eventually getting her own.

 

She followed Hearts through thick and thin. She was there to see the club win the league twice in the 1957-58 season and again in 1959-60, lift the Scottish Cup in 1956 against Celtic and again in 1998, beating Rangers 2-1, and saw the club lift the Scottish League Cup four times from 1954 to 1960.

 

Labour councillor and family friend Gordon Munro said fans called her a legend on the terraces because of her ardent support for the club.

 

He said: "Mary loved the glory days and was a big admirer of Steven Pressley, because he reminded her of the players from the old school."

 

A Hearts spokesman said the club would agree to Mary's ashes being scattered on the turf.

 

He said: "Mary was a real character, proud to be a Hearts supporter, and was well known to many people at the club."

 

 

 

REST IN PEACE MARY.(TRUE SUPPORTER) :angel::teu35:

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""Mary was proud to be a Hearts supporter and was well known to many people at the club" Hearts spokesman"

By JOHN GIBSON and NICK JURY

SHE hardly missed a match in almost 70 years of supporting Hearts.

So when devoted fan Mary White died last week, her family decided there was only one place to scatter her ashes.

 

Mary, who took ill with a brain tumour on her 91st birthday in October, passed away at the Marie Curie Hospice on Friday.

 

She will be cremated at Warriston Crematorium on Monday, along with her maroon scarf, before her ashes are scattered at Tynecastle.

 

Mary, from Stenhouse, had been a fan of the Gorgie club since 1938.

 

Her daughter, Anne White, 50, from Broomhall, said: "Mum had been going to the football since she was a teenager and supported the club all her life. We're having her ashes scattered on the pitch because she would have wanted that.

 

"The only time she stayed away was when there was trouble with casuals. Mum was a real dyed-in-the-wool Jambo and loved nothing more than talking about following the team back to Gorgie in 1956 after winning the cup with me on her shoulders. She and dad lived and breathed Hearts."

 

A season-ticket holder, she still managed to get to every home game until taking ill, with her granddaughters Alana and Stephanie, and niece Laura Wood, as well as sometimes managing to travel to away games.

 

Laura, 50, of South Gyle Wynd, said: "The Hearts was in her blood and she'd get passionate about it. She could be vocal sometimes when she didn't agree with a referee's decision, and if she didn't like something happening in the team, she'd say so. Auntie Mary supported all the new players, but her favourites were the legendary Willie Bauld and Dave MacKay in the 1950s."

 

Her passion for Hearts started as a young woman, when with her father and four brothers she would go to Tynecastle. In those days it cost between 1/6 (7.5p) and 2/6 (12.5p) for a ticket, and she would go as often as she could. Her late husband Rob was also a supporter, and because he often had

to work nights, she would use his season ticket to see the club, before eventually getting her own.

 

She followed Hearts through thick and thin. She was there to see the club win the league twice in the 1957-58 season and again in 1959-60, lift the Scottish Cup in 1956 against Celtic and again in 1998, beating Rangers 2-1, and saw the club lift the Scottish League Cup four times from 1954 to 1960.

 

Labour councillor and family friend Gordon Munro said fans called her a legend on the terraces because of her ardent support for the club.

 

He said: "Mary loved the glory days and was a big admirer of Steven Pressley, because he reminded her of the players from the old school."

 

A Hearts spokesman said the club would agree to Mary's ashes being scattered on the turf.

 

He said: "Mary was a real character, proud to be a Hearts supporter, and was well known to many people at the club."

 

 

 

REST IN PEACE MARY.(TRUE SUPPORTER) :angel::teu35:

 

Spot on mate.

 

'And when my life is over, and death has left it's mark, you can scatter all my ashes, on the slopes of Tynecastle park'

 

Rest in Peace love.

 

Proud to be Hearts always.

 

NT.

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Rest in Peace.

 

'And when my life is over, and death has left it's mark, you can scatter all my ashes, on the slopes on Tynecastle park'
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RIP, good to see the club still allowing ashes to be spread @ tynecastle. have it written into my will whenever that day comes.

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