O'Brien, Etta (Broderick) 1875-1938

BRODERICK OBRIEN ONEILL FROMMELT EBERHARDT DEMUTH MCGUIRE DUGGAN HOUGH EDWARDS

Posted By: K.Hawkins (email)
Date: 7/29/2007 at 01:57:56

Mrs. John O’Brien

Funeral services were held Thursday, November 3, at 9 a.m. at St. Mary’s church in McGregor for Mrs. John O’Brien, age, 62, who died suddenly Monday afternoon following a stroke. Rev. Father Horsfield officiated at the solemn high Mass, and also with the burial in St. Gabriel’s cemetery at Prairie du Chien.

Mrs. Etta O’Brien was born Dec. 6, 1875, at Deerfield, Dane Country, Wis. On Nov. 25, 1893, she was married to John O’Brien at Mason City. They lived there and at Calmar before coming to Marquette 34 years ago. Ten children were born to this union. One daughter preceded her in death, in infancy.

She is survived by her husband and nine children: Lester and Earle O’Brien of Prairie du Chien; Mrs. Myrtle O’Neill of McGregor; Mrs. Pearl Frommelt and Mrs. Eugene Eberhardt of Guttenberg; Mrs. Joe DeMuth of Prairie du Chien; William of Marquette; Robert and Daniel at home; 10 grandchildren and four sisters: Mrs. Jim McGuire of Sanborn, Iowa; Mrs. Mae Duggan, Mason City; Mrs. Agnes Hough, of Long Beach, California and Mrs. Louise Edwards of Mason City, also two brothers, Frank Broderick of Mason City and Ed. Broderick of Milwaukee, Wis.

Other relatives and friends attending the funeral from out of town were Jim McGuire, Sanborn; Joe Coutney, of Thornton, Iowa; Anna Mae Dorsey, Rockwell, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. Magnus Schultz, Rita Duggan, Bill Cleoss, Mason City; Ed. O’Brien, Austin, Minn; Joe Becker, Calmar; Mr. and Mrs. Leo Frommelt and daughter, Ray and Carl Valley, Mr. and Mrs. George McClure and Fay McClure, Prairie du Chien; Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Eberhard, Guttenberg; Mr. and Mrs. Ed. McAndrews, Irish Ridge; Mrs. Al Kadlec, Farmersburg.

The pallbearers were Elmer Langlie, George Pillard, Don Herron, Frank Gallagher, Percy Cleveland, Roy Campbell, Bill Dickey, Frank O’Brien.

Jack O’Brien, a grandson and four other Prairie du Chien boys served the Mass.

CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our sincere thanks for the many floral and spiritual bouquets, and other expressions of sympathy received during our bereavement. JOHN O’BRIEN and FAMILY.

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Notes: the newspaper photocopy didn't show date or the newspaper name, was provided to me from Joen De Muth (daughter of Esther O'Brien who married Joe DeMuth. She is referenced as “Mrs. Joe DeMuth” above). Joen obtained copy from Dan O'Brien (son of Daniel O'Brien). Both Esther & Daniel were children of Etta’s.

Note: Prairie du Chien is in Wisconsin, just across the Mississippi river from McGregor, Iowa. We know Etta O’Brien, per her gravestone in Calvary Cemetery Prairie du Chien, WI died in 1938, so based on obituary above referencing services held Thursday November 3rd, and that she had died on Monday of that week, her date of death would be October 31, 1938. Her husband John James O’Brien died October 3, 1945 and shares the same grave headstone with Etta showing years of birth & death.

If you are related to any relatives of Etta O’Brien, mentioned in this obituary, please contact: Kathy O’Brien, daughter of Jack (John E.) O’Brien, the grandson referenced as serving mass in last paragraph.