James Michael Houlihan (1913-1989)

HOULIHAN, GEHLING, DRESS, WINDERL, SCHLIESMAN

Posted By: Richard Gehling (email)
Date: 7/24/2010 at 16:08:19

(Carroll, Iowa, Times Herald, Tuesday, December 26, 1989)

Former county official James Houlihan dies

A longtime Carroll business and community leader, James M. Houlihan, 76, died Friday, Dec. 22, 1989, at St. Anthony Regional Hospital in Carroll following a long illness.

Mass of the Christian burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 27. at Holy Spirit Church in Carroll. The celebrant will be the Rev. Mervin Hood. Burial will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at St. Rose of Lima Cemetery in Denison.

Visitation will begin at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Sharp Funeral Home in Carroll.

Rosaries will be recited at 3 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. Tuesday, the latter by the Carroll Knights of Columbus. A scripture service will be held at 7:30 p.m.Tuesday by Holy Spirit Parish.

The Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus will form an honor guard at the funeral home for the rosary and at the church for the Mass.

Houlihan was Involved in many business ventures in Carroll since 1939 when he established the Houlihan Oil Co., now Winnike and Masching Oil Co.

He later formed a partnership with the late Bill Reicks in the Reicks and Houlihan Car Sales and Malntainance Co.

Houlihan was elected to the Carroll County Board of Supervisors in January of 1975 and served until December of 1982. He also served as the chairman of the Board of Supervisors. His main interests were the Department of Mental
Health and the Department of Human Services.

He served on the Carroll Community School Board and served as president.

He was active in the development of many community projects and served as a member of the Holy Spirit Parish Development Committee, a member of the original Kuemper High School Planning Board, a member of the St. Anthony
Nursing Home Building Committee, and the St. Anthony Regional Hospital
Development Committee, a member of the New Hope Village Development Planning Committee, and the Carroll Day Care Center Development Committee.

Lector for the Mass will be Joe Staiert. Gift bearers will be Michelle Satterlee, Christy Wiederhold. Alisa Schleisman, Kay Lynn Houlihan, Casey Houlihan and Holley Miller. Mass servers will be Scott Masching, Keith Gehling and Jay Masching.

Casket bearers will be Howard Drees Jr., Brian Houlihan, Greg Schreck, David Houlihan, Steve Wiederhold and Mike McCarty.

Memorials for New Hope Village of Carroll may be left at the funeral home.

Houlihan was born on Aug. 19, 1913, at Vail, a son of Michael L. and Belle (Conroy) Houlihan. He spent his younger years In the Vail and Denison communities where he received his elementary education. He graduated from Dow City High School.

On Oct. 11, 1937. he married Cecilia Gehling at Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Carroll with the Rev. Lambert Schenkelberg officiating.

Following their marriage, he was employed by the Gambles Store in Carroll and then was manager of the Coon Rapids store, before moving to Carroll.

He was a member of Holy Spirit Parish in Carroll, a member of the Third and Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus and the Carroll Elks Lodge. He was also a Past Grand Knight and District Deputy of the Knights of Columbus,

Survivors include his wife, Cecilia, of Carroll; his children: Pat (Mrs. Howard) Drees of Carroll, Jane (Mrs. Richard) Wiederhold, of Winterset; Elaine (Mrs. Steve) Schleisman of Paris, France, and Michael Houlihan and his wife, Beth, of Kenosha, Wis.; a daughter-in-law, Lois Houlihan of Carroll; 20 grandchildren, and seven greatgrandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a son, Lee; a grandson, Jerry Drees, and a sister, Marian, in infancy.

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