Thaddeus "Tade" Kelly

KELLY, DUFFY, MATHIS

Posted By: Connie L. Ellis (email)
Date: 12/24/2010 at 18:20:10

SOURCE: Waukon REPUBLICAN-STANDARD, October 24, 1989
Contributor: Connie Ellis (Not related)

Funeral services were held Monday, October 23, 1989 for Thaddeus "Tade" Kelly, 55, of Waukon, Iowa, who died Friday, October 20 at Lutheran Hospital in LaCrosse, WI. Father John Moser conducted the 11 a.m. services held at St. Patrick's Catholic Church. Burial was in the Mt.Olivet Cemetery with Hanson Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Casket bearers were Leon Schulte, Dick Hermanson, Elmer Troendle, John Joe McCormick, Bart Needham, and Bob Heffern. Honorary pallbearers were John Wolfe, John Baumgartner, Earl Iverson, Pat Corrigan, and Dennie Zoll.

Tade was born October 4, 1934 in Waterville to Timothy R. and Gertrude Kelly and graduated from Waterville High School. On September 3, 1955 he married Virginia M. Duffy at St.Pat's. They lived in rural Waterville and Waukon. He had been a farmer and truck driver. He was a member of St.Patrick's Church and the Eagles Club in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.

Surviving are his wife, three sons, Daniel J. of Waterville, Timothy J. of Waukon, and Michael J. of Bettendorf, Iowa; three grandsons and a sister, Jean (Kelly) Mathis. He was preceded in death by a sister, Florence Kelly.