Mary Ann Donahue 1867-1911

DONAHUE, MAHER, BROWN

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 11/21/2011 at 19:52:23

Summoned By Death
Miss Mary A. Donahue Passed Away at Her Home Here Monday
Spent Life in This County
Miss Mary A. Donahue
Miss Mary A. Donahue, daughter of Mrs. Ann Donahue died at her home on East Roberts Street at 10:30 o’clock Monday evening after a lingering illness running over a period of a number of months. For the past seven or eight weeks she had been very low.

The funeral service will be held at the home tomorrow morning at 8 o’clock. Remains will be taken to Emmetsburg on the Rock Island train Thursday morning and burial will be made in the family cemetery lot at that place.

Mary Donahue was born December 12, 1867 in this county on the Donahue homestead on Mud Lake in High Lake township. Her girlhood days were spent on the farm. For many years she has cared for and been a great comfort to her aged mother and together they have lived in a nice home on East Roberts street. She was a perfect lady and was admired by all for her gracious qualities. Early in life she was united with the Catholic Church and was a devoted and faithful Christian woman.

The entire community appreciated the true worth of this excellent lady, taken in the prime of life, and hasten to extend sympathy to her mother and sister, Mrs. Otto Brown, in their great sorrow. (Estherville Enterprise, Estherville, IA, July 12, 1911)

Death of Mary Ann Donahue
The death of Mary Ann Donahue although expected for some time, shocked those who were ignorant of her last sickness. Death came to her peaceably Monday evening from the dreaded disease tuberculosis from which she has suffered for some time. She was in her forty-second year of her life and up to twenty years ago she made her home with her parents on a farm near High Lake township. A mother and sister remain to mourn her death. The remains will be taken to Emmetsburg and laid away by the sides of her father and brother who preceded her. (Vindicator and Republican, Estherville, IA, July 12, 1911)

Miss Donahue of Estherville Dead
Miss Mary Ann Donahue of Estherville, sister of the late Edward Donahue, died at Estherville Monday night. Her mother and one sister, Mrs. Brown, survive her. She was a niece of the late Wm. Maher. The funeral will be held tomorrow. The burial will be in St. John’s cemetery at this place. (Emmetsburg Democrat, Emmetsburg, IA, July 12, 1911)

Note: buried in St. John's Cemetery, Emmetsburg, IA