John N Cunningham 1879-1938

CUNNINGHAM, PASCOE

Posted By: Georgea Clinton (email)
Date: 6/10/2011 at 09:09:42

Aug 2, 1938 - Carroll Daily - Funeral services will be held in the Presbyterian Church here Wednesday at 3 p.m. for John N. Cunningham, 58, former superintendent of the Carroll public schools, who died unexpectedly at his home in Omaha Monday evening of a heart attack. Dr. Henry C. Schneider of Boone, a former Carroll minister, will conduct the services and burial will be in the city cemetery here. Mr. Cunningham's sudden death was a shock not only to his family but to the Carroll friends who recall the thirteen years he spent as superintendent of the Carroll schools, during which time the groundwork was laid for the present large system and modern plant.

Following his retirement from education work in 1934. Mr Cunningham remained in Carroll for about a year, after which he moved to Omaha where he associated himself with Blodskys as manager of the Drexel Hotel. Friends of the family said that the only indications of Mr Cunninghams illness prior to his seizure which took his life in less than a half an hour Monday night, was his complaint of being short of breath during the past few days.

At the time of his death, his youngest daughter, Ruth, was visiting in the E.J. Riley home in Carroll and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Howard Cunningham, the former Maurine Pascoe, was visiting her mother, Mrs. Ethel Pascoe, here. Both returned to the family home, 424 Park Avenue, Omaha, at once.

Besides his wife, Mr. Cunningham is survived by two sons, Howard and Robert, the latter living at home and the former making his home in another section of Omaha; a daughter, Ruth, living at home; a brother and sister, Willis and Blanche Cunningham at Allerton, a sister, Marie, who teaches in the Carroll school system and has been visiting at Allerton during the summer, and a brother, Dr. K.E. Cunningham of Mason City. There is also one grandson, Kirby Parker Cunningham, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Cunningham.

The body is being brought to the Huffman Funeral Home here today where it will remain until the time of the services. It may be viewed at the funeral home after 7:40 p.m. today.