Flaherty, Bernard 1861 – 1910

FLAHERTY

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/22/2024 at 16:07:26

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Oct. 18, 1910, LP, C7

OBITUARY.
FLAHERTY.
Bernard, eldest son of Mrs. B. and the late Michael Flaherty, was born Dec. 17, 1861, in Paris township, on the same farm whereon he died.
His early life was spent at home on the farm where he shared with his parents the difficulties of pioneering.
For a short time he was engaged in the implement business in Cresco in partnership with a Mr. Manning.
Shortly after his father’s death in 1894, his health began to fail. He tried every available remedy, but medical skill seemed powerless to combat the disease that was fastening itself upon him. But though he was disabled physically, he was keen intellectually, and it was to him that his mother would go for counsel since the death of her husband. She, it is who will greatly miss him, and his death is a crushing blow to her declining years.
For well nigh sixteen years he has been a constant sufferer and the great beauty of his life was the patience with which he endured these sufferings. Cheerfulness was one of his prominent characteristics. It can never be said of him that he had a habit of enumerating his troubles, but he took up his cross and bore it bravely to the end. Always charitable in his conversation and ever ready to see good qualities in everybody he spoke of, it was a pleasure to converse with him.Though he had an aversion for wrong-doing, it did not make him dislike the person that did the act. He had great respect for old age and some of his most ardent friends are numbered among the old, and have lived here beside him his entire life time. His disease had been gradually growing worse and during the last few weeks the immediate family knew that death was only a question of time. All that tender hands could do, was done to alleviate his sufferings and he did not fail to show his gratitude for this. When his sisters would be doing something to comfort him, he would utter; “May God reward you for what you have done for me."
On the evening of Oct. 10, he passed into the hands of his Maker, fortified by all the rites of the Catholic church. In his passing the family have lost a devoted son and brother; the community have lost a friend and well-wisher. He leaves to mourn his death, his mother, four sisters, six brothers, many other relatives and a host of friends.
His pall bearers were chosen from among the friends of his boyhood days and were as follows: Michael Norton, Michael Conley, Thomas Reynolds and Joseph Montague of Lourdes; Coleman Foley of Elma and Martin Lydon of Cresco.
His funeral which was very largely attended was held from Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Oct. 12th, where Requiem High Mass was celebrated by Father Norris. After giving him the last blessing of the church, Father Norris paid an eloquent tribute to the life of the deceased. His remains were then laid to rest in Our Lady of Lourdes cemetery.

Transcriber’s Note: His gravestone shows he was born in 1860.

Our Lady of Lourdes Cemetery
 

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