Quinn, Maggie (Hickey) 1848-1894

QUINN, HICKEY

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Date: 5/10/2005 at 20:21:14

The Newton (IA) Journal, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 1894

PASSED BEYOND – Last Sabbath morning at five o’clock, in the city of Chicago, there passed from life to death, Mrs. Maggie Hickey Quinn, an estimable woman who has many friends in and around Newton. A little over a week ago a letter had been received from that home saying, “We are all well and happy.” She was afterward stricken with pneumonia and died in a few days. Her girlhood home is within a few miles of Newton. She taught school in the country before her marriage, about twenty years ago. She leaves a husband and four children, a young lady, a young man and two little boys.

The body was brought to Newton for burial and the funeral was held at the Catholic Church, Tuesday morning, at nine o’clock. As Father Quinn was away to conference and could not return, a priest from away pronounced the mass. A company of relatives and friends were there to mourn and to comfort the bereaved. Mrs. Quinn’s entire family came from Chicago with the body. Her daughter, Miss Mamie, is a talented young lady, who just this season was graduated and obtained a certificate to teach in the city. Out of 2000 who wrote the examination, but 300 passed and she obtained the next to the highest marking. In the midst of her success, she is plunged into this sudden sorrow. How strangely blent the sunshine and shadows of life are! A number of carriage loads of sympathizing friends followed the mourners in their sad journey to the cemetery, there to lay at rest the beloved form in its last resting place.
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The Newton (IA) Record, Friday, August 24, 1894, Page 5, Column 5
Obituary

Quinn, Maggie (Hickey)

Died: Mrs. J. F. Quinn died at her home in Chicago, Sunday, August 19, from typhoid pneumonia, after an illness of but a week.

Maggie Hickey was born in Galway County, Ireland, November 9, 1848, and came to Iowa with her parents in 1859. She was married to John F. Quinn in St. John's Church, Newton, January 2, 1872, and immediately afterward they moved to Chicago, which has been their home ever since. The grief stricken husband, four children, and the aged mother, Mrs. Hannah Hickey of this city, survive to mourn their loss. The children are: Frank, age 20, Mamie, age 19, Brazell, age 14, Leo, age 9.

Mrs. Quinn was possessed of many womanly virtues, was a loving, self-sacrificing mother, and devoted wife. She will be greatly missed.

The remains were brought to Newton Tuesday; the funeral being from St. John's Church that morning. Rev. Father Costello, of Emmetsburg, officiating in the absence of Father Quinn. The burial was in the Catholic Cemetery beside the grave of her father, according to the expressed desire of the deceased.

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