KOERNER, Emma H. (McGonagle) 1884-1971

KOERNER, MCGONAGLE, WRIGHT, BAXTER

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 2/14/2014 at 23:43:59

[Waterloo Daily Courier, Monday, January 18, 1971]

Funeral services for Mrs. Emma H. Koerner, 86, of the Ellis Hotel, will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Duane Brady will officiate. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery.

A wake service is planned for 7 p.m. Tuesday at O'Keefe & Towne Funeral Home, where friends may call after 10 a.m. Tuesday. Mrs. Koerner died of complication of age at 6:15 a.m. Sunday at Allen Memorial Hospital.

She was born Nov. 13, 1884, in Alta, Ill., the daughter of Patrick and Mary Wright McGonagle and was married in 1902 to John D. Koerner in Peoria, Ill. The couple moved that year to Waterloo, where Mrs. Koerner was a member of St. Joseph's Church.

Survivors are a son, Charles A. Koerner of Boulder City, Nev.; a grandson; six great grandchildren; and a brother and sister, Charles McGonagle and Mrs. Lura Baxter, both of Peoria.

Mrs. Koerner was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, a brother and a sister.