MADDEN, Joseph H. (1917-1997)

MADDEN, HOGAN, ERSLAND, HAPGOOD, FLOY, STOLTENBERG, DAY, WOODHOUSE, BAMRICK, PROFETA

Posted By: Marilyn O'Connor (email)
Date: 12/10/2005 at 21:26:43

Mason City Globe Gazette

Mason City- Joseph H. Madden, 79, of 513 Fourth St. S.E., Mason City, died Wednesday (Jan. 8, 1997) at the Muse Norris Hospice Impatient Unit, Mason City. A funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 302 Fifth St. S.E. Mason City, with the Rev. Carl A. Ries officiating.

Burial will be in Elmwood St. Joseph Cemetery with full military honors conducted by by the Mason City Veterans Memorial Association.

Visitation will begin at 3 p.m. today at Hogan Bremer Colonial Chapel, 125 Third St. N. E., with a scriptural prayer service beginning at 7 p.m., followed by a Knights of Columbus rosary at 8 p.m.

Joseph H. Madden was born April 22, 1917, in Dougherty, son of Thomas and Regina (Hogan) Madden. He was married to Omalee Ersland on Oct. 12, 1940, at Holy Family Catholic Church, Mason City.

Joe spent his childhood years in Dougherty and some of his fondest memories were of the days he spent with his grandfather, John Hogan, on his horse farm. He graduated from St. Joseph High School in Mason City and served in the U. S. Air Force during World War II and was stationed on Tinian Island in the South Pacific, where he served on the ground crew of the Enola Gay.

Joe served 33 years on the Mason City Police Department, retiring in 1979. He was associated with Hogan Bremer Colonial Chapels for more than 25 years.

He belonged to the St. Vincent DePaul Society, he was a 3rd Degree member of the Knights of Columbus Council #1006, and a 4th Degree member of the Monsignor Dougherty Assembly of the Knights of Columbus.

Joe was also a member of the American Legion Clausen-Worden Post #101, the Veterans of Foreign Wars San Juan Marine Post #733, the Fraternal Order of the Moose Lodge, and the Iowa State Police Association.

Survivors include four daughters, Linda Hapgood and her husband, Jerry, Camarillo, Calif., Catherine Day and her husband, Bob, Waukesha, Wis., Mary Jo Profeta and her husband, George, Evanston, Ill., and Rose Ann Stoltenberg, and her husband, Randy, Mason City; two brothers, John Madden, Oak Park, Kan., and Tom Madden, Mason City; three sisters, Rosalie Woodhouse, Mason City, Mary Floy, Thornton, and Jean Bamrick, Rockwell; 11 grandchildren, John, Paul, Joseph, and Patrick Hapgood, Brian, Kevin and Ryan Day, Molly and Anthony Profeta, and Amy and Rachel Stoltenberg.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife Onnalee on Feb. 7, 1987; two brothers, Russell Madden and Raymond Madden in infancy; and one grandson, Peter Madden Hapgood.