McGilligan, Thomas Henry (1867-1941)

MCGILLIGAN, HALL, CLENDENNING, CROWLEY, HAYES

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Date: 5/17/2017 at 15:40:27

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Wednesday, March 19, 1941

SERVICES FOR LOCAL MAN TO BE ON FRIDAY

Thomas H. McGilligan, 73, Dies at University Hospital

Funeral services for Thomas H. McGilligan, 73, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic church, with the Rev. Father F.J. Frein officiating. Burial will be made in Graceland cemetery, with Foster's in charge.

Mr. McGilligan died at 6:55 a.m. yesterday at the University hospital in Iowa City where he had been for treatment 12 days. Death was caused by pneumonia and complications. He had been in failing health since December.

Thomas Henry McGilligan was born Nov. 17, 1867, on a farm near Arena, Wis. At the age of 15 years he went to a barber college and learned the barber trade, and later he was employed by the Milwaukee railroad. In 1905, he moved to Britt where he was employed in a barbershop. After three years there he moved to Ledyard where he purchased a barbershop. He retired from this business in 1912, and entered the real estate business.

He was married June 14, 1899 to Zula Hall in Webster City, and in 1919 the family moved here where they lived until 1921, when they moved to Bancroft. There they operated a restaurant until 1926, when they moved to Algona.

Oct. 16, 1940, they moved back to this city and had been living with Mrs. McGilligan's sister, Mrs. Ruth Clendenning, 937 Walnut street.

He was preceded in death by his parents, a son, Merrill James, 29, who died in 1931, and by four brothers and three sisters.

He leaves his wife, a son, John Hall McGilligan, of New York City, three grandchildren, Lavonne and Robert McGilligan, of Spencer, and Merrill James McGilligan, who lives with his grandparents, a brother, James, of Madison, Wis., and two sisters, Mrs. Lizzie Crowley, of Madison, and Mrs. Mary Hayes, of Milton Junction, Wis.

He was a member of the Modern Woodman lodge and formerly belonged to the Elks lodge here.

Prayers will be said at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the Clendenning home.