Roach, Margaret C. (Collins) 1870-1950
ROACH, COLLINS, WHITE, MARSHALL
Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 2/9/2015 at 23:01:06
Cedar Rapids Gazette, Fri., 24 Mar. 1950.
Iowa Deaths:
Elkader- Mrs. Margaret Roach, 80, died Thursday in Minneapolis. Services, 10 a.m. Saturday in St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Body at McTaggart Funeral Home.
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Clayton county Register, 06 Apr. 1950.
Margaret Claire Collins, daughter of Joseph C. and Julia A. Collins, was born on a farm in Read township on Feb. 01, 1870, and died in Minneapolis on March 22, 1950.
She was educated in the Elkader public schools and taught in the schools of Clayton county for years prior to her marriage to William Joseph Roach in St. Joseph's church on April 27, 1897. Mr. Roach died on March 01, 1904.
Mrs. Roach was a charter member of the Women's Catholic Order of Foresters, Court 108, the Cemetery Association and the Civic Improvement club of Elkader. She was a delegate to the national convention of the W.C.O.F. held in Chicago in 1912. She was a member of the Catholic church.
She moved to Dubuque in September, 1918, and since then had resided in Des Moines, Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Minneapolis.
Many former Elkader Friends, as well as St. Paul and Minneapolis friends called at the Gill Bros. funeral chapel in Minneapolis on Thursday evening and at the McTaggart funeral chapel here on Friday evening.
A solemn requiem high mass was held in St. Joseph's church at 10 o'clock Saturday morning, with the Rev. B. H. Skahill as celebrant, assisted by Father Kress of Strawberry Point and Father Jerald Blackburn. Burial was in St. Joseph's cemetery with Father Blackburn officiating.
Casket bearers were John Roach, Edwin Hyde, Irving Raftis, Vincent Stence, Edward Finley and Leo Roach.
Out of town friends and relatives who attended the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wilson, Des Moines; Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Weitz, Mrs. L. S. Wathen, Mrs. Elizabeth Ploog and Laverne Hall, Dubuque; Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Nesbit, Castalia; Miss Sylvia Dorweiler, Flandreau, S.D.; D. J. Raftis, Mrs. John Lillis, Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Raftis and Irving Raftis, Oelwein; and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Reyhous, Solon.
Mrs. Roach is survived by three daughters: Mrs. C. E. White, with whom she lived in Minneapolis; Miss Clo M. Roach, St. Paul; and Mrs. W. R. Marshall, Waterloo; and one son, Wm. C. Roach, Oakland, Calif. She is also survived by three grandchildren and two nieces.
Clayton Obituaries maintained by Sharyl Ferrall.
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