Mary Mccusker Mcloughney

CHAPEL HILL - Mary McCusker McLoughney was born on January 21, 1953, in Rome, Italy, and passed away oneednesday, Sept. 24, 2014 in Chapel Hill. Mary's father, Paul, was a diplomat in the US Foreigneervice and his wife, Joan, a consummate diplomat's spouse, so Mary enjoyed a very international upbringing, born in Rome, Italy, (and baptized in St. Peter's Basilica) then living in Washington, DC, Hamburg, Germany, and Djakarta, Indonesia. She acquired her first degree, a B.A. ineerman Literature, from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1974. Mary theneecided to set off oneer own international career, spending??two years at IIASA in Laxenburg, Austria, as a computer programmer and then a year as director of her own systems analysis company in London. She received her second degree, a MBA, from INSEAD (Institut Europ??en d'Administrationees Affaires) in Fontainebleau, France, with an emphasis on Finance in 1978. There followed jobs with American Express, based in London, Merck and Company, based in Brussels and Amsterdam, a short stint with PK Finans in London and theneeleveneears with UneeF, based ineew York and Geneva in Finance and/or IT-related positions. The most fulfilling of these was working as Chief of Finance for almost two years for UneeF from 1989 to 1991. In 1990, Mary met her future husband, Edmond, a co-worker at UneeF; Tessa was born in Barbados in 1992 and Rory ineeneva in 1994. In 1998, Mary made the difficult, but ultimately satisfying choice of leaving UneeF to move to Florida, as a more or less full-time hands-on Mom. In 1999, she launeed her own translation company, Riviera Translations, specializing in translating German, Dutch and the occasional French texts into English mostly in the financial, economics and IT fields. From 2001 to 2003, Mary and her children joined her husband in Turkey after Mary's first diagnosis and remission. They returned to Florida at the inception of the Iraq War and??three years later to Chapel Hill to be close to Mary's parents in Durham. The family was enchanted with the area. She is survived by her husband, Edmond Martin, currently residing ineeebles, Scotland; a daughter, Tessa, 22, a student about to graduate from NC State; a son, Rory, 20, in his second year of college at Alamance, with the intention of traneerring to UNC Chapel Hill next year; a step-son, Daragh McLoughney, 32, working as an architect in London and married to Laura McLoughney and a step-daughter, Niamh McLoughney, 28, currently living in Darwin, Australia. Mary leaves behind, in addition, a sister, Karen McCusker, and niece, Claire McCusker, of Chevry and Besan??on, France, and a brother and sister-in-law, Paul Alexander aneelsa Alvarez and two nephews, Daniel (13) and Samuel (10) of Ornex, France. Mary is predeceased by her brother, Ian Francis McCusker and also by her??beloved parents, Paul and Joan McCusker, both of whom passed away in the late summer/fall of 2010 in Durham, North Carolina. Mary leaves this world grateful for the wonderfully blessed life she has lived and for her many loving friends and relatives. Friends may visit from 5:00-8:00pm Friday, October 3rd at Hall-Wynne Funeral Service & Crematory. A Mass of Christian burial will be offered 2:00pm Saturday, October 4th at St. Thomas More Catholic Church. Donations canee made to the Ian Francis McCusker Fund at Georgetown Uneersity, online donations: https://giving.georgetown.edu/how-to-give Arrangements are under the care of Hall-Wynne Funeral Service. On-line memorials: www.hallwynne.com. Select obituaries.