Margaret "Nell" Hughes O'Connell 1859-1939

OCONNELL, HUGHES, BARRETT, TOSTENSEN, TOSTENSON, ATHEY, OBER

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 11/20/2011 at 17:33:18

Burial Held Here for Mrs. O’Connell Former Resident
Mrs. Nellie O’Connell, 79, of Ft. Dodge and formerly a resident of Estherville, passed away Sunday evening at the Mercy hospital in Fort Dodge.

She was the grandmother of three Estherville women, Mrs. Ethel Athey, Mrs. Harold Ober and Mrs. G.T. Tostensen.

Surviving are two daughters, Miss Gertrude O’Connell and Mrs. Hazel Barrett, one son, T.D. O’Connell, all of Fort Dodge. She has eight grandchildren and twelve great grandchildren.

Funeral services were held on Wednesday morning in the Catholic church at Fort Dodge and at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Mahlum & Anderson funeral chapel here.

Interment was in the St. Patrick’s Catholic cemetery. (Estherville Vindicator and Republican, Estherville, IA, April 13, 1939)

O’Connell Funeral Wed.
Funeral services were held Wednesday morning in Ft. Dodge and Wednesday afternoon in the Mahlum and Anderson funeral chapel in Estherville for Mrs. Nellie O’Connell, 79, who died Sunday at Mercy hospital in Ft. Dodge. Mrs. O’Connell was a former Estherville resident. Three local women, Mr. G.T. Tostenson, Mrs. Ethel Athey and Mrs. Harold Ober are grandchildren of the deceased. (Estherville Enterprise, Estherville, IA, April 13, 1939)