Mary (DOUGHERTY) WADE

DOUGHERTY, WADE, MCAVOY, GALLAGHER

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 4/2/2011 at 06:35:04

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
1956

Rites for Mary Wade to Be Saturday

Requiem high Mass will be celebrated for Mary WADE, 94, Saturday at 10 a.m. at St. Patrick's Catholic Church at Dougherty. Father A. A. McAVOY will officiate.

Mrs. WADE, former resident of Dougherty, died Tuesday at her home in Chicago. She was the daughter of a pioneer Iowa couple, the late Daniel J. and Mary (GALLAGHER) DOUGHERTY. Her father founded the town of Dougherty.

She was born Dec. 6, 1861, at McGregor, and at an early age moved to Dougherty with her parents.

Her husband was the late John F. WADE, Iowa welfare leader and once chairman of the State Board of Control. She was the mother of Beatrice D. WADE, director of occupational therapy and associate professor at the University of Illinois Medical School; and three sons, Martin J. WADE, Chicago; Clem F. WADE, Evanston, Ill., both attorneys; and Hugh J. WADE, treasurer of the Territory of Alaska.

Also surviving are a brother, Joseph H. DOUGHERTY, Butte, Mont., and a sister, Mrs. Margaret DOUGHERTY, nine grandchildren . . . .rest of obituary clipped off. . . .

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2011

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