Mum of former PM Paul Keating to be lovingly remembered

MINNIE Keating, the woman who raised a Bankstown family of over-achievers, including former prime minister Paul, has died aged 94.
Mrs Keating was left the head of the family after husband Matt died suddenly while running an errand as Paul washed the family car at their western Sydney home.
She provided the security for her four children to chase their ambitions, sometimes in raucous fashion.
Paul Keating has frequently and always lovingly referred to her.
He has not commented today but previously has spoken of the wrenching loss of his father.
“It’s always with me. You kind of never get over it. But you never want to get over it. There is a place for sadness and melancholy,” he recently told ABC TV of his father’s death.
A funeral notice today said Minnie Keating was “much loved mother and mother-in-law of Paul, Lyn and Tony, Anne, Greg and Kerry. Cherished grandmother of Elizabeth, Kate, Alison, Jane, Patrick, Caroline, Katherine, Alexandra, Sally, Shaun and Andrew, and their spouses and thirteen great-grandchildren”.
A mass for Minnie Keating will be offered in St Patrick’s Church, Grosvenor Street, Church Hill on tomorrow at 2pm. There will be a private internment.