O'Brien, Lucretia Boston (1885-1943)

OBRIEN, BOSTON, NELSON, CONNER

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Date: 11/16/2023 at 12:33:24

Daily Freeman Journal
Webster City, Iowa
Monday, March 29, 1943

Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon for Mrs. Roy O'Brien, 58, who died suddenly at the hospital Sunday morning. Death was caused by a heart attack. Mrs. O'Brien has been a surgical patient at the hospital the past two weeks.

The Rev. Dr. Jones will officiate at the services Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. at the Foster funeral home. Burial will be made in Graceland cemetery.

Mrs. O'Brien, the former Lucretia Boston, was born March 30, 1885 at Blair, Neb. and came to Iowa with her family when she was 14 years old. She attended the schools at Boone where the family located and grew to young womanhood there.

Jan. 26, 1914 she was married to Roy O'Brien at Boone. They came to Webster City to make their home and had lived here since that time.

Mrs. O'Brien had been employed in the ready-to-wear department of Eichman's store for 20 years.

She was preceded in death by her parents, one sister and one brother. Besides her husband, two sisters and one brother survive: Mrs. O.H. Nelson, Grand Junction, Iowa; Mrs. Margaret Conner, Fort Calhoun, Neb., and R.C. Boston, Chicago. There are also several nieces and nephews.

Mrs. O'Brien was baptized in the Episcopalean faith as a young girl. She was widely known because of her work at the store and will be remembered for her cheerfulness and sense of humor.