Milton James Morrissey 1900-1957

MORRISSEY, AHRENS, WALDRON

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 6/19/2013 at 01:29:32

Milton J. Morrissey is Dead
Milton J. Morrissey, about 58, [per headstone application marker, dob April 18, 1900 – per CA death records, dob April 18, 1898] former resident of Estherville, died suddenly of a heart attack at 11:30 a.m. yesterday at his home in Oakland, Calif [Los Angeles]. He had been hospitalized for five weeks with an asthmatic condition having received his release just last Sunday.

Born in Marseilles in La Salle county, Ill., he received his education in the La Salle county schools. Upon completion of his schooling his family moved to Estherville, where he and his father, upon arrival operated a tire shop.

On Oct. 18, 1925, he married Hulda Ahrens in Estherville. A member of the American Legion, he worked for some time with the . . . employed at a bakery owned and operated by the late J.E. Wilson. For the past 15 years he had been working for Douglas Aircraft in California.

He was a member of the Catholic church, Knights of Columbus, American Legion and was a veteran of World War I.

Survivors in addition to his wife, are his mother, Mrs. J.J. Morrissey, one sister, Mrs. Charles (Mary) Waldron and one brother, Roy Morrissey, all of Estherville.

He was preceded in death by his father.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. in St. Patrick’s Catholic church with Father J.H. Duhigg officiating. Military graveside services will be conducted at the Catholic cemetery. The rosary will be recited at 6:30 Tuesday evening at Sandin-Fuhrman Funeral Home.

The body will be flown here by plane, leaving California Monday. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, October 19, 1957)