A FORMER RAF corporal who was awarded an MBE for his charity work has died at the age of 43.
After reading about the conditions in a Romanian orphanage, Paul McGinn set up a charity to help children.
He was born in Lurgan and was the youngest of eight children. He was living in England at the time of his death.
He arranged transport, r
aised money, and delivered food, medicine and cleaning products to an orphanage in Oradea and equipment to a nearby hospital.
Mr McGinn, was awarded the MBE in 2000, suffered a heart attack at home in Darlington, north east England in the early hours of last Wednesday.
His funeral is being held today [Thursday, April 17] in St James The Great Church, Darlington, followed by internment in the town's West Cemetary.
His wife, Linda, said that, after reading about the orphanage in 1999, he told her that he knew he could do something to help.
Mrs McGinn, 50, has received a message of condolence from Sir Jimmy Savile, a fundraiser for the Stoke Mandeville hospital, in Buckinghamshire.
Mr McGinn served in the Falklands, Bosnia, the Gulf and Canada before retiring to Darlington, four years ago. He then worked for Petit Forestier, in Durham.
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