Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-05-23
MRS. OWEN M'MAHON ENTERS
INTO REST.

The many friends of Mrs. owen Nc
Mahon were deeply grieved when the
! sad news was learned that she had
passed away on Thursday morning,
| May II, at one o'clock at her home in
Prairie township. Deceased had been
! in failing health for the past four
months but her condition was not con-
| sidered serious until the last two
weeks, when she began failing rapid
ly. Death, robbed of it's sinister as
pect by the strength of her faith,
came to her in the hush of the mid
night hour. Ellen Anna Barry was
the third eldest of family of twelve
children, and was born in New Haven,
Connecticut, Jan. 8, 1856, In 1858
she came to Iowa with her parents,
her father locating at Bankston, where
she grew to womanhood, and on July
8, 1878, was united in marriage to
Owen Mcmahon, after which they NOV
ed to Prairie township, to the home
where they have since resided. Be-
sides her husband, seven children,
four brothers and four sisters are
left to mourn her death. Mary, Eva,
william, Harry, Richard Grace and
Helen, all of whom live at Mason
Vile with the exception of Harry,
who resides at Marysville, California.
william Barry, of Masonville; Mrs.
VIM. Page, of Geneva; Mrs. Henry
Meis, Breckenridge, Mimi; Frank
Barry, Farley; Richard Barry, St.
Paul, Mimi; Mrs. Jos. Heiberger,
Ryan; and Mrs. Alice Jennings and
Jos. Barry of Waterloo.
The funeral was held Saturday
morning at $50 at st. Mary's Catho-
lie church at Masonville. Requiem
mass was ~solemnized by Father Lon
ergan and sung by St. Mary's choir
of Manchester. The church was
thronged with the friends Of this
Christian woman, who had assembled
to honor her memory. In the course of
the service Father Lonergan paid
an eloquent tribute to the virtues of
the departed woman and offered con-
ISOLATION to the grief stricken husband
and children of this Christian wife
and mother.
The cortage which was an exceed
ingly long one, moved from the church
to St. Mary's cemetery, where she was
tenderly laid to rest. The pall-bear-
ers were her six nephews. VIM.
Barry, Louis Mulvehill, Roy Mcmahon,
Richard Barry, and Arthur Heiberger.
Those who attended the funeral from
a distance were Mr.. and Mrs. r. Nc
Mahon, Mrs j. King, Mrs. T. Connell
and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Berry, of Far
ley; John Mcmahon and sons, Roy and
Ray, and daughter. Rachel of Banks
ton; P. Higgins, Mrs. Kane, Misses
Agnes and Mae Mcmahon, Miss Jettie
Deegan, Miss Rose Mcmahon of Du-
buque; Mr.. and Mrs. Murphey and
Miss Eliza Page of Worthington; Mrs.
Stark of Cedar Rapids; Miss Frances !
Shekleton of Lawler; Mr. and Mrs. ].
]. J. Duffy of Dyersville; Mr.. and Mrs.
P. Ferring, of Bankston, Mrs. J. kie-
man of Farley, Mrs. John Manley OF |
Dyersville; Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Meow
an of Dyersville; Mr.. T. Dunn, Mr.. J.
Daley of Farley; Mrs. T. Barry and son |
and daughter of Cedar Falls; Mrs.
Schares and daughter Margaret of Gill
bertsville; Miss Christina Nemmers of
Waterloo. Mrs. Mcmahon was an ideal
type of noble womanhood, which can
not but win for itself admirers and
friends. She was of warm and
generous nature and her first devotion
has ever been to her home and to
hose who were near to her. But re-
CARELESS of this she had ever time to .
urn an ear of quick sympathy to those .
outside Of her own who CHANGED to
Know the visitations of misfortune .
md there is many one who Will !
bless her memory as benefactoress
Tor she went along day by day, quiet ;
~ Tightening burden whenever she .
could. The deceased was ever bright
and cheerful of disposition and no :
matter what difficulty might beset
her way, she had ever word Of hope
and trust that all would yet be we'll.
This beautiful trait she inspired in
those about her so that those who were
associated with her felt always the
sustaining comfort of hope and trust.
Those who knew Mrs. Mcmahon best
are the ones who will miss her most.
BY her upright, womanly qualities d,