SWITZER Mary

SWITZER OBRIEN BERNETT FINNEGAN BOYER GUERTIN HORSTMAN

Posted By: Marilyn O'Connor (email)
Date: 3/2/2005 at 19:26:14

Mrs. Mary Switzer

Requiem mass for the late Mrs. Mary Jane Switzer who died suddenly Sunday night after a brief illness at her home 642 South Jersey Avenue, will be said at St. Joseph's Catholic Church at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. The Very Rev. Dean P.S. O'Connor will be the celebrant.
Burial will be in St. Joseph's cemetery.
Mrs. Switzer was a member of St. Joseph's parish.

Wild Rose Division, G.I.A. to B. of L. W. will meet at the residence at 9 o'clock and will go to the funeral as a body.
Mrs Switzer was insurance secretary of the order and had been a member of the Ben Hur Lodge.
She was a faithful and consciencious worker in St. Joseph's Tabernacle Society, in which she served as promoter.

Mary Jane O'Brien was born March 26, 1863 in Dane County, Wis. She moved to Mason City twenty-six years ago. Her husband William Switzer preceded her in death twenty-two years ago.

Children who survive her are: Mrs. Jack Bernett of Chicago; Miss ALma Switzer of Minneapolis; Ancil and John Maynard Switzer of Chicago; Joseph Lester Switzer of Mason City.

Sisters and brothers who mourn her loss are:
Mrs Bridget Finnegan of Mason City, Mrs. S. Boyer and Mrs. Ed Guertin of Sanborn; Mrs Herbert Horstman of Britt, Miss Elizabeth O'Brien of Minneapolis, Henry O'Brien of Osage, Lawrence O'Brien of San Francisco, and Linnford O'Brien of Malta, Mont.

A host of friends and neighbors, to who she had endeared herself with her kindly ministrations and steadfast friendship extend deepest sympathy to the bereaved family in this hour of sorrow.