MOONEY, Helen Marie (Schwartzhoff) 1905-1998

MOONEY, SCHWARTZHOFF, DANAHER, CHAPMAN, HELMING, NORTON, BAXTER, SEVERSON

Posted By: Mark KERNAN (email)
Date: 2/16/2004 at 20:11:28

Courier Press
Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin
Monday Jan 26, 1998

HELEN MOONEY

Helen Marie Mooney, 92, of rural Harpers ferry died Tuesday, Jan. 20, 1998 at Veterans Memoriel Hospital in Waukon.

Surviving are a daughter, Ramona Chapman of Galena, Ill.; two sons, Tom and Carole of Marion and Maurice and Kay of harpers Ferry; 18 grandchldren, 33 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren; a sister, Ann and Jack Hemling of Cedar Rapids; and a brother, Gregg and Charlotte Schwartzhoff of Milwaukee.

Funeral services were held Saturday at the Immacilate Conception Catholic Church with internment in the Wexford Cemetery. The Martin Funeral Home, Waukon assisted with the arrangements.

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11/07/2011 - Added by Connie Ellis (not related):

Funeral services for Helen Marie Mooney, age 92,

were held at 11 a.m. Saturday, January 24, 1998 at the Immaculate Conception Church in Wexford with the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Ed Lechtenberg officiating. Burial was in the Wexford Cemetery, rural Lansing, Iowa with the Martin Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements. Casket bearers were Tim Mooney, Sean Mooney, Richard Mooney, Rod Chapman, Herb Dehli, Ray Callahan, Jim Wadsworth, and Stanley Schwartzhoff. Honorary bearers were Dorothy Schwartzhoff, Alice Conway, Mary Mohn, Emma Dehli, Geneva Johnson, Anna Callahan, Genevieve Collins, Hazel Theis, and Betty Amundson.

Helen Marie, daughter of Herman and Mary (Danaher) Schwartzhoff, was born April 4, 1905 in Dorchester, Iowa. She attended elementary school in Dorchester and St. Vincent's High School in Dubuque, Iowa. On October 1, 1927 Helen married Harold Mooney in Harpers Ferry, Iowa. They farmed in the rural Harpers Ferry area for many years. She was a member of the Immaculate Conception Church in Wexford Catholic Church and its St. Theresa Circle. In May 1995 Helen became a resident of Northgate Care Center.

Helen Marie Mooney died Tuesday, January 20, 1998 at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon, Iowa. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband; a daughter Regina Norton, one grandson, four sisters, Cecelia Baxter, Winifred Schwartzhoff, Margaret Schwartzhoff, and Lucille Severson; six brothers, Harold Schwartzhoff, Jack Schwartzhoff, Alfonse Schwartzhoff, Cletus Schwartzhoff, Mark Schwartzhoff, and George Schwartzhoff.

Helen is survived by a daughter, Ramona Chapman of Galena, Illinois; 2 sons, Tom (Carole) Mooney, and Maurice (Kay) Mooney, all of Harpers Ferry, Iowa; 18 grandchildren, 33 great-grandchildren, 2 great-great grandchildren; a sister, Ann (Jack) Helming of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; 1 brother, Gregg (Charlotte) Schwartzhoff of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

~WAUKON STANDARD, January 21, 1998