Ella (Regan) Ryan - 1887-1986

REGAN, WALDRON, RYAN, TAYEK, HOWES, KEATING, BAXTER, DEVRE

Posted By: Connie Ellis (email)
Date: 2/10/2011 at 09:37:53

SOURCE: Waukon, Iowa WAUKON REPUBLICAN-STANDARD, December 30, 1986
Contributor: Connie Ellis (Not related)

Ella Ryan, age 99, a resident of Thornton Manor in Lansing, Iowa died Monday December 22, 1986. Services were held Saturday, December 27 at 11 a.m. in St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Waukon, Iowa with Father Larry Duenas officiating. Burial was in Mount Olivet Cemetery with Hanson Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Casket bearers were her grandsons Clem, Jim, Bill, and Joe Ryan, Ed O'Neill, and Jim Howes.

Ella was born December 3, 1887 in Waukon, Iowa Allamakee County to Charles and Mary Ann (Waldron) Regan. She married Edward J. Ryan October 24, 1910 in Dubuque, Iowa She was a homemaker and a member of St. Patrick's Church and the rosary Society.

Preceding her in death were her husband, Edward; a daughter Connie Howes; 4 brothers, Charles Regan, Pete Regan, Dan Regan, and Conn Regan; and 4 sisters, Alice Keating, Sister Cornelia Regan, Winifred Baxter, and Celia DeVre.

Surviving her are a daughter, Alice Tayek; 2 sons, Edward Ryan, and Charles Ryan; 31 grandchildren, 68 great-grandchildren, and 4 great-great grandchildren; and a sister, Angela Howes.