CARROLL, Matilda M. "Tilla" (KIPPER)

KIPPER, CARROLL, VESTNER, SCHOLL

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 3/25/2016 at 00:08:58

Obituary - Matilda M. "Tilla" (Kipper) Carroll
1875 ~ 1965

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa

Matilda M. Carroll dies at 90

Matilda M. (Tilla) Carroll, 90, widow of John W. Carroll, died Monday afternoon at a Rockwell nursing home. She had made her home on a farm near Swaledale [for] 66 years.

Mrs. Carroll was born Jan. 22, 1895 (sic, should be 1875), Glen Haven, WIs., daughter of Peter and Matilda (Vestner) Kipper. She was married to John W. Carroll, Aug. 2, 1899, at Manchester.

They moved to a farm near Swaledale, which she contiued (sic) to make her home. She was preceded in death by her husband in 1945. Preceding her marriage, she had been a milliner at the Shorter Millinery Shop in Rockwell.

She is survived by a sister, Elizabeth M. Scholl, Rockwell. Besides her husband, she was preceded in dath by four sisters and two brothers.

Mrs. Carroll was a member of St. Lawrence Catholic Church of Swaledale.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete. Visitation at the Hogan-McKee Colonial Chapel will be from 4 p.m. Wednesday until the time of service.

[Interment was made at Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery, Rockwell, Iowa.]

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2016