Collins, Celia (McLaughlin) 1882-1945

COLLINS, MCLAUGHLIN, GRUBER, SCHOLTES

Posted By: Sharyl Ferrall - IAGenWeb volunteer
Date: 8/18/2013 at 18:08:01

Waukon - Funeral services for Mrs. Will Collins, 63, will be held from the Bakke and Hanson funeral home to St. Patrick's church here Thursday morning. The Rev. Ernest McDonald, pastor, will celebrate the mass of requiem, and burial will be in Oakland cemetery. Mrs. Collins died early Tuesday morning at St. Francis' hospital, La Crosse, Wis., where she had been a patient since Thursday.

As Celia McLaughlin, she was born Jan. 21, 1882, on a farm north of Waukon. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William McLaughlin. Following her marriage to Will Collins, they resided on a farm in Hanover township until they retired to Waukon. Mr. and Mrs. Collins made their home with their children during the past year.

She is survived by her husband; two daughters, Mrs. Harris Gruber and Mrs. John Scholtes, both of Lansing township; a brother, John McLaughlin, Chicago, Ill.; two sisters, Misses Josie and Margaret McLaughin, both of Minneapolis, Minn.; and four grandchildren.

~Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, Evening Edition, Wednesday, November 21, 1945
~Died 11/20/1945

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Added by Richard O'Brien 8/25/2013:

This obituary for Cecelia Collins states place of burial as Oakland Cemetery. This is wrong. The place of burial is Mt Olivet Cemetery, Waukon. In the Woodmansee book there is a Collins, ? -1945 Nov 19. This is Cecelia Collins. Her Husband William E. Collins is on the same stone. William Collins 1881 Jul 30-1971 Dec 18 died at LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Find A Grave.com has a photo of the stone.