Mary Doty 1929-1959

DOTY, HEALY, SEYMOUR

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 5/18/2021 at 18:51:32

10 December 1959 - The Tipton Conservative

Funeral services for Mrs. Hugh Doty, 30, were held at 9:30 a.m. Monday at St. Mary's Catholic church in Mechanicsville. Burial was in Rose Hill cemetery at Mechanicsville.

The Rev. P. J. Casey, pastor of St. Mary's celebrated the solemn requiem high mass. The Rev. Robert Kalb, pastor of St. John's church, Bernard, was deacon and the Rev. John W. Dalton, St. Joseph's church, Farley, was sub-deacon. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Michael J. Martin, St. Joseph's church, Dubuque, was present in the sanctuary.

Mrs. Doty died at 9:30 a.m. Friday at University Hospitals, Iowa City. She had been hospitalized 4 weeks and had undergone brain surgery twice.

She was born Mary Loretta Healy, daughter of William and Genevieve Larkin Healy, at Farley, June 5, 1929. She graduated from St. Joseph's high school at Farley, and attended Marycrest college at Davenport. She graduated from the University of Iowa in February, 1951, and took graduate work in education at S.U.I.

She was married to Hugh Doty at Farley, May 5, 1951.

Mrs. Doty taught school at Morley, Anamosa and Tipton as well as at a rural school northeast of Bennett. When the family moved to Mechanicsville in 1955, she became news editor of The Pioneer Press and Stanwood Herald until 1958.

She is survived by her husband; one son, Patrick; a brother, W. J. Healy, Farley; and a sister, Mrs. C. J. Seymour, Epworth. Her parents preceded her in death.

She was an officer in the Mechanicsville Junior Women's club and a member of the Tipton chapter of the American Association of University Women.

Pallbearers were James Cook, Lee Scott, John Moffit and Merven Trump, all of Mechanicsville; Kieffer Garton, Tipton, and J. C. Burke, Anamosa.