Noonan, Julia (Lynch) – Died 1903

NOONAN, LYNCH, BURKE, KELLY, CANNON, O’HARE

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/22/2024 at 16:07:20

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Oct. 20, 1903, FP, C3

Mrs. Julia Noonan died at the home of her son, Patrick Noonan, at Chester last Thursday, Oct. 15, aged 103 years. She was brought to Cresco, Saturday, for interment in St. Joseph’s cemetery. We hope to give an obituary in our next issue.

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Oct. 27, 1903, LP, C7

A Long Life Ended.
Mrs. Julia Noonan died at the home of her son, Patrick Noonan, Thursday, Oct. 15, 1903, at three o’clock in the afternoon. Just what age she had reached was not known to herself or to her family but could be found upon the moldy church records where she was born in Woodford, county, Galway, Ireland. However, it is known from incidents she remembers, that she was born near the close of the eighteenth century and was between 103 and 109 years old.
Eighty-two years ago in March she was married to Michael Noonan, supervisor of government roads in her native country. Her maiden name was Julia Lynch. Mr. and Mrs. Noonan continued to live in Ireland until the fall of 1854 when they came to America and made their home in Newark, Ohio, for three years, going then to Warnerville, Wis, and in 1872 coming to Chester, Iowa.
Her husband died in the fall of 1882 from heart failure. Since then she has lived with her only son, Patrick Noonan, who Is her youngest child, Her eldest daughter is Mrs. Anne Burke of Chicago, who is near her 80th year. The other living daughters are Mrs. John Kelly of Chester and Mrs. James Cannon of Cresco. A deceased daughter was the late Mrs. Thos. O’Hare of Fort Dodge.
Mrs. Noonan comes of a long lived family and has evidently bequeathed the blessing to her children and their children. She has many grandcbildaen{sic} and many more great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Noonan lived a woman’s strenuous life, her whole being made up of energy and action that are the direct result of perfect health and positive, happy character.
She lived a long useful life and watched the birth and death of the most wonderful century the world ever saw. She lived and died in the faith of the Catholic religion.
The funeral services were held at the home early Saturday morning, Father O’Brien of Riceville officiating, and the remains were conveyed to Cresco for interment in St. Joseph Catholic cemetery.—Chester Herald.

Source: Decorah Republican Nov. 5, 1903 Page 4 Col 1

A Centenarian.
The Chester (Howard Co.) Herald reports the death on the 15th of an old lady named Noonan, who was born in the latter part of the eighteenth century. How much more than a hundred and three years old she was is speculative. She was married eighty-two years ago, and leaves, a daughter who is over eighty years old. Also other children. She was of Irish birth, and came to this country in 1854.

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