Mary (Delaney) Casey - 1920-1989

DELANEY, MCKENNA, CASEY, BYRNES

Posted By: Connie Ellis (email)
Date: 1/9/2011 at 20:33:47

SOURCE: Waukon, Iowa, WAUKON DEMOCRAT, July 20, 1989
Contributor: Connie Ellis (Not related)

Mary C. Casey, age 68, of Iowa City, Iowa died Friday July 14, 1989 at Mercy Hospital following a short illness. Funeral services were held Tuesday, July 18 at St.Patrick's Catholic Church with burial in St.Joseph Cemetery in Iowa City, Iowa. The Rev. Peter Cross officiated. The Danaher-Lensing Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Heath, Dustin, Jared, and Nicholas Byrnes were acolytes and Jim Byrnes was lector.

Mary was born September 25, 1920 in Waukon, Iowa to James and Elizabeth (McKenna) Delaney. She was a 1937 graduate of Waukon High School. On November 15, 1938 she married Bernard Casey at St. Mary's Church, Hanover. She worked in the dietary department at University Hospitals from 1961 until her retirement in 1985. She was a member of St.Patrick's Catholic Church, Altar and Rosary Societies, and Catholic Order of Foresters. She had been a Johnson County resident for over 40 years.

She was preceded in death by her husband, who died in 1974 and a brother Patrick Delaney.

Surviving are three sons, James Casey of Iowa City, Iowa, Gail Casey of Atlantic, Iowa, and Kenneth Casey of Coralville, Iowa; a sister, Jeanne Byrnes of Waukon, Iowa; eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.