MONAGHAN, F. Gordon 1916-2003

MONAGHAN, DALY, HEBERT

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 2/1/2009 at 19:46:43

F. Gordon Monaghan, age 86, of Charles City, Floyd county, Iowa, died on Friday, May 16, 2003, at the Floyd County Memorial Hospital of natural causes. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Charles City, with Monsignor Stanley J. Heyek celebrating the mass. The pall will be placed on the casket by his family. Son-in-law Phil Naumann will serve as lector. Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery with Knights of Columbus Council #1409 serving as pallbearers.

Friends may call from 3-8 p.m. Tuesday at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church Social Hall, where there will be a 4 p.m. Rosary and a 7 p.m. scripture service. Further visitation is an hour prior to the funeral at the church. Hugeback Funeral Home in New Hampton is handling the arrangements, please call 1-888-201-3708 for information. To leave an online memorial condolence for Gordon visit www.hugebackfuneralhome.com .

Gordon was born on August 21, 1916, in Charles City the son of Fred B. and Violet (Daly) Monaghan. He attended the Niles County School in rural Floyd County. Gordon graduated from the Charles City High School in 1937 and attended Iowa State University, Ames, for two years, studying engineering. Obligations on the family farm required him to leave college before graduation.

On January 2, 1946, at Immaculate Conception Church in Charles City he married Bernardine Hebert. Gordon worked 28 years with Monaghan Bros. turkey and cattle operation and 17 years in his hog confinement operation. Gordon and Bernie retired in Charles City.

Gordon served on the Archdiosean Pastoral Council for three years, Immaculate Conception School Board for a term, as an Eucharistic Minister and a lifetime member of the Knights of Columbus Council #1409 in Charles City. Gordon served many years on the governing board of the Cedar Valley Hospital, Charles City, and was president of the board at the time of the transition to the new Floyd County Memorial Hospital site. He also served three terms on the Charles City Airport Commission and his greatest hobby was flying private aircraft for business and pleasure. He was a loving husband and father that will be deeply missed.

Survivors include two daughters: Cheryl Naumann (Phil) of Coldwater, Ohio, and Jan Monaghan (Brian McKeever) of San Francisco, Calif.; three sons: Thomas Monaghan (Donna) of El Cajon, Calif; Gerard Monaghan (Suzanne Algeria) of San Francisco, and Tim Monaghan of San Francisco; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren; two brothers: Grafton 'Red' Monaghan (Marion) of Springfield, Mo., and George 'Kerm' Monaghan of Concord, Calif.; two sisters: Doris Meurer (Harold) of Indianapolis and Darlene Haug (Roy) of Colorado Springs, Colo.

He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers: Garland and Kenneth Monaghan; two sisters: Dorothy Herrig and Marian Regan; and a grandson, Jeffrey Naumann