Kathleen (Spinner) O'Malley - 1926-1998

SPINNER, SEVERSON, OMALLEY, MAASS, KARIS, CARLSON, GAINES, HALVERSON, GUNDERSON, BENSON

Posted By: Connie Ellis (email)
Date: 10/3/2011 at 19:21:10

SOURCE: Waukon, Iowa WAUKON STANDARD, Febraury 11, 1998
Contributor: Connie Ellis (Not related)

Funeral services for Kathleen Adele O'Malley, age 71, of Lansing, Iowa were held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, February 10 at Immaculate Conception Church in Lansing. Burial was in the Gethsemane Cemetery. Burke-Thornburg Funeral Home in Lansing, Iowa handled the arrangements. Casket bearers were Mike Spinner, Jr., Ray Benson, Matt O'Malley, MiKe P. O'Malley, Mike Zoll, and Dan Halverson. Honorary bearers were Betty Ferring, Marg Hogan, Evelyn Burke, Lisa Halverson Welsh, Lynn Spinner O'Hara, and Mary Anderson Palmborg.

Kathleen Adele, daughter of Raymond and Della (Severson) Spinner, was born December 6, 1926 in Oelwein, Iowa. On October 31, 1949 she married Dennis O'Malley at the St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Waukon, Iowa. Kathleen was a longtime Lansing resident. During the 1980's she assisted her husband in the insurance business. They retired in 1988.

Kathleen Adele O'Malley died Saturday, February 7, 1998 after a long illness. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband who died June 6, 1995, a daughter Beth who died in 1980, a sister, Patricia Benson, a sister-in-law, Alice Spinner, and one granddaughter, Liberty Maass.

Kathleen is survived by her 3 sons, Tim O'Malley and Mark (Becky) O'Malley, all of Lansing, Iowa, and Jon O'Malley of Denver, Colorado; 5 daughters, Ann (John) Maass of LaCrescent, Minnesota, Joan (Bob) Karis and Kim (Alan) Carlson, all of Madison, Wisconsin, Peggy "Meg" O'Malley of Coppell, Texas, and Erin (Ron) Gaines of Lansing, Iowa; 10 grandchildren; 3 brothers, Ray "Rusty" Spinner of Postville, Iowa, Don (Myrt) Spinner of Davenport, Iowa, and Mike (Katie) Spinner of Marshalltown, Iowa; 3 sisters, Sister Magdelle Spinner of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Mary Lou (Gordon) Halverson of Urbandale, Iowa, and Janet (Ralph) Gunderson of Fairbank, Iowa and a brother-in-law, Tom Benson of Tripoli, Iowa.