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KIERON, Rose A. (Galligan) 1853-1901

KIERON, GALLIGAN

Posted By: Bruce Kuennen (email)
Date: 11/25/2018 at 22:35:44

OBITUARY.

DIED, at her home in Waucoma, on June 6, 1901, Mrs. J. W. Kieron, aged 48 years.

Rose A. Galligan was born in Hartford, Wis., Oct. 13, 1853, and came to Iowa in the spring of 1859, when her parents purchased a tract of land on what is known as Reilly Ridge; there she spent her happy girlhood, which was frought with the frolics of childhood, the learning at the country school and the hopes and dreams to one day rise to be something more: this she accomplished by attending the old Bradford Seminary, where she qualified herself to teach ere she reached her seventeenth birthday. She was a capable and popular teacher and attained unusual success for one so young.

She was married to J. W. Kieron Feb. 11, 1870. After spending six years of her early married life on their farm north of town, they removed to town, where they built for themselves a pretty home and where the deceased enjoyed every comfort and luxury a generous and worshiping husband could lavish upon her, until the hour of her death.

The deceased was confined to her bed the past four mouths, but as her malady was Bright's disease her Illness an-antedates this last mortal stroke several years. It was a great comfort to her to have at her bedside during the greater part of her last sickness her devoted niece, Miss Anna Stanton of New Hampton, who thought no task too hard to perform for the much beloved "Aunt Rosanne."

To the dear ones who watched at her bedside her patient suffering, her never-failing courage and often ex-pressed gratitude for all that was done for her. will ever live in pathetic memory. One seldom meets with a character so nearly divine as was that of the deceased. She was an angel of mercy during the sickness of a neighbor, a kind and sympathetic friend when sorrow came to others, a wife who never faltered in her duties, and who considered wifely duties blessed privileges. In her home, her faith, and her private living she was ideal; purity, charity, faith, love and industry dominated her. In her death the community has lost a sweet, gracious, gentle, noble woman and by her death one of our happiest homes has been cast in gloom. Words of sympathy are but as husks to a heart so bereft as is that of the husband, and we can do no more than say "we sympathies."

The funeral services were hold from St. Mary's Chatholic [sic] church, Saturday morning. Rev. Father Nagle officiating at requiem High Mass. The Now Hampton choir was present and sang the mass service; Will Tooley of the choir sang the "The Holy City," and and Mrs. Nugent, also of the choir, sang "I am Nearer my God Today than ever I was Before." The funeral services were attended by one of the largest assemblages of friends within the history of the town. Rev. Father Nagle preached a beautiful and consoling sermon, after which the remains were laid to rest in St. Rose's cemetery. — Waucoma Sentinel.

Source: New Hampton Tribune, June 18, 1901 accessed at New Hampton Public Library Digital Archives

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