Sheehy, Anna Theresa 1879 - 1911

SHEEHY, MURPHY, WILLIAMS

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 9/10/2012 at 02:20:25

Postville Review, Fri., Dec. 29, 1911. Mostly taken from the Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald.
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Miss Theresa Sheehy, who for fifteen years made her home in Grand Forks, died at 3:35 Monday morning, Dec. 18, 1911, in a Minneapolis hospital, following a lingering illness having its inception about three years ago, and from which she gradually failed. Complications of diseases was responsible. The funeral service was held Wednesday morning, Dec. 20th, at 9 o'clock from the Holy Rosary church in Minneapolis.

Miss Sheehy was very well known in Grand Forks, having made her home in this city for a number of years. For three years she was employed in the Ontario store. During her residence in Grand Forks the deceased made a host of friends who heard with real regret the news of her death.

John Sheehy arrived in Minneapolis just a few hours before death came and was at her bedside. She was conscious to the last, and death came as a relief from the long suffering. John Murphy of Reynolds and M. F. Murphy of this city, uncles, were also there.

Surviving her are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sheehy, 1704 Twenty-sixth street, Minneapolis; three sisters, Mayme and Marie, residing at home, and Mrs. M. E. Williams of Kenmare, and three brothers, Frank and Leo at home, and John E. Sheehy, residing in Grand Forks.

While she had been ill for a long time, she had been in hospital only the last six weeks.--Grand Forks (N.D.)Herald.

Anna Theresa Sheehy was born in Postville, Oct. 9, 1879, and at the time of her death was age 32 years, two months and 9 days. She is well remembered here as a bright, attractive and lovable girl, and the sorrow the news of her death occassioned can be better imagined than described.

The funeral was largely attended and the floral offerings numerous and beautiful.

Present at the funeral from outside of Minneapolis were:--M. F. Murphy and Margaret Murphy, Grand Forks, N.D.; John Murphy and wife, Reynolds, N.D.; D. A. Murphy and John Sheehy, St. Paul; Miss Maggie Sheehy, Sioux City, Iowa; M. Houlihan, New Hampton, Iowa; Miss Christine Sheehy and A. J. Phillips, Postville, Iowa.

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Submitter is not related.

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