Eugene "Owen or Ownie" McMahon 1862-1935

MCMAHON, REDDIN, NOONAN, DONOVAN, STANTON, ROLLINGER, GAUL, LYNCH, DULLEA, FLYNN

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Date: 7/5/2017 at 22:27:30

Cascade Pioneer, June 13, 1935, page 1, column 4

Eugene McMahon

Funeral services for E. P. McMahon, who died suddenly at his farm home in Washington township, Garryowen, early Friday morning, were held from the Devaney funeral home to St. Patrick's church at Garryowen, Monday morning. Burial was in the adjoining cemetery.

Pallbearers were: Mike Reddin, Leo Noonan, Dave Donovan, Sr., Walter Noonan, William Stanton, Nick Rollinger, Rich Lynch and Dennis Dullea.

Mr. McMahon became ill suddenly of heart disease, about ten o'clock Thursday evening and died within a few hours.

Eugene Patrick (Ownie) McMahon was born in Dubuque September 25, 1862, the son of Ross and Bridget McMahon. In October, 1890, he married Catherine Flynn at the Cathedral in Dubuque. She preceded him in death in 1927.
He is survived by eight children - Frank and Albert, Dubuque, Raymond, Gertrude, John and Lorraine at home, a son James and a daughter Mrs. Charles Gaul, of Chicago; two brothers, George and Ross, of Chicago, and a brother Walter, of Salt Lake City, Utah, also survive.

During his young manhood Ownie McMahon spent several years as a lumberjack in the northern pineries of the far north—where "might was right", and the strongest won. Those were the days when "wilderness was king" and the call of the wild was in the air; the days when the big raft boats piled the Mississippi and the building of the empire was in process of making.

The deceased was of a happy, witty and pleasing disposition which made for him countless friends, each and every one of whom mourn his departure as a distinct loss.

Compliments of Joseph Cahill