MULLEN Hannah

MULLEN

Posted By: Marilyn O'Connor (email)
Date: 3/20/2005 at 20:39:59

DEATH CLAIMS MISS MULLEN

Veil is Drawn Over Young Life of Remarkable Purity and Devotion.
Died at Cedar Rapids.
Had Taken Turn for Better and Death was Rather Unexpected. Was Daughter of Mr and Mrs John Mullen, Who Live Here.

At the age of twenty-seven years, two months and twenty five days, Hannah, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Mullen residing south of Dougherty, died at Mercy Hospital in Cedar Rapids, Saturday May 9, 1908, at 2:00 p.m.

Miss Mullen was born at Argyle, Wis., February 14, 1881 and in 1887 removed with her parents to this place.

For several years past Miss Mullen has been a sufferer from a complication of nervous aliments,
which baffled all efforts at cure, and about two months ago she went to Mercy Hospital in Cedar Rapids, with the hope that treatment received there might be beneficial.

John Mullen, father of the deceased, went to Cedar Rapids last week and as death came rather unexpectedly, he was the only relative with her when she passed away.

Deceased was brought here for burial, arriving on the early train Sunday morning.

Solemn high mass was said for the departed soul by Rev. Father O'Reilly, at St. Patrick's church on Monday forenoon and interment was made in the parish cemetery.

Good, indeed, was the life of Hannah Mullen; spotless as the snows of winter and pure as the dew of the morning, and it is a great consolation to the loved ones from whose midst she has passed to her Heavenly home, to know that from a life of suffering she has passed to a life of eternal peace, the just reward of her purity and faith. Death was only the gateway through which the soul, freed from the cares of this world, passed into the light everlasting of Paradise; and to the true Christian, who is ever and always prepared, death has no sting and the grave no terror.

Such was the life of her who has just passed from among us.

She was a devout Catholic, her religion and devotion to the Church being one of the greatest comforts of her life.

The number of exquistely beautiful floral offerings given by her devoted friends bore mute but eloquent testimony of the regard in which Miss Mullen was held among those who knew her.

The St. Veronica League, of which she was a member, presented a floral wheel with one spoke missing, symbolic of the fact that Miss Mullen's death was the first to occur in the organization.