Rose Dunnigan passed away on Sunday April 5 aged 95 after a lifetime spent helping others.

Her funeral took place today at Alexandria Parish Church in Balloch.

Rose, nee Peacock, hailed from Strowans Road in Dumbarton and served as a nurse during World War Two.

After the war she was a nurse at Babcock and Wilcox factory in Dumbarton before moving to the Vale of Leven Hospital.

She started work as an arts and crafts teacher when the hospital was known as Henry Brock Hospital, which was the old Care of the Elderly Unit in the 1960s.

Rose moved to the new geriatric unit in 1977 and worked with long term care and rehabilitation patients in the hospital until she left NHS employment in September 1984.

Despite retiring, she didn’t leave the hospital and started as a volunteer in Ward 15 and 16 where she continued helping to organise trips for elderly patients such as outings to local beauty spots and Christmas shopping excursions.

She was made an MBE in the Queen’s New Years Honours list in 1996 for her tireless service to patients, both as a NHS employee and volunteer.

At the time, she said she was ‘overawed’ to receive the award.

Rose retired from her voluntary service at the hospital in 2008, after 50 years of helping care for others.

Her colleagues said she would be ‘greatly missed’ in the hospital and Philip Jones, who travelled from Wales for funeral, said she was a " fantastic lady who lived to serve the people of West Dunbartonshire".