JOYNT Mary Lenore

JOYNT MCMENIMEN CAHILL, GRELL

Posted By: Marilyn O'Connor (email)
Date: 11/24/2009 at 18:13:50

Mason City Globe Gazette
April 1992

Mary Lenore Joynt

MASON CITY- Mrs Ralph (Mary Lenore) Joynt, 86, formerly of 215 Seventh Street, S.E., died Saturday (April 4, 1992) at Good Shepard Nursing Home.

Funeral Mass will be held at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, 302 Fifth Street S.E., with Rev. Carl A. Ries and Rev. Dennis Cahill, officiating. Burial wil be in Clear Lake Cemetery, Clear Lake.

Visitation will begin after 4 p.m. today at Hogan-Bremer Colonial Chapel, 126 Third Street N.E., where a scriptural wake service will be held at 7 tonight.

Memorials may be given to Mary Lenore Joynt Memorial Fund.

Mrs. Joynt was born Dec. 30, 1905, at Dougherty, a daughter of Henry and Anna (McMenimen) Cahill. She married Ralph T. Joynt, Jan. 7, 1934, at Northwood.

She attended school at Dougherty and St. Joseph's Academy, Des Moines. Following her graduation from Mason City High School in 1924, she attended the former Columbia College at Dubuque, now Loras College. She then taught school for a short time near Dougherty.

Mrs. Joynt worked at the former Damon-Igou Department Store in Mason City and later the Cerro Gordo County Courthouse. In 1932 she was named "Miss Mason City" in a local contest receiving a cruise to Cuba and Panama.

She was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church, and circle at church and a former member of U Go I Go Club, and Milwaukee Railway Women's Auxiliary, all Mason City.

Survivors include one daughter, Mrs James (Bette) Grell, Garner, two sons, Thomas Joynt and his wife, Camilla, White Bear Lake, Minn.; Joseph Joynt and his wife, Sandra, Iowa City; 10 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; two brothers, Henry "Hank" Cahill, Rockwell; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, two brothers, two sisters, and one grandson.