Stella Mae 'Tootie' Mahoney 1926-2003

MAHONEY, AUSTIN, BALL

Posted By: Lori Clark (email)
Date: 1/22/2003 at 08:35:00

Gay & Ciha Funeral & Cremation Service– Iowa City – (319) 338-1132
2720 Muscatine Avenue, Iowa City, Iowa 52240

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Stella Mae “Tootie” Mahoney, age 76, of 1824 East Court Street, Iowa City died Friday, January 10, 2003 at a hospital in Harlingen, Texas following a brief illness.

Funeral services will be held 11:00 A.M., Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service in Iowa City with Judy Gingerich officiating. Burial will be at the Oakland Cemetery in Iowa City. Visitation will be from 4 to 7pm Tuesday at the funeral home. Memorial donations can be made to the Iowa City Humane Society. Online condolences may be sent for “Tootie’s” family through our web site @ www.gayandciha.com.

“Tootie” was born April 24, 1926, in rural Johnson County, Iowa the daughter of Ed and Estella (Austin) Ball. She graduated from Iowa City City High School. On September 4, 1944, she married Joseph Earl Mahoney here in Iowa City. For many years “Tootie” worked as the business manager in the cafeteria of South East Junior High School.

She loved the outdoors, camping and fishing. Tootie has always had a garden, freezing and canning the fruits of her labors. And if you were ever around her during baseball season, you knew she cheered loudly for the Chicago Cubs!

Her family includes two daughters, Susan Mahoney of Iowa City, and Jennifer Mahoney and her husband, John McCabe of Harlingen, Texas; son, Michael Mahoney of Iowa City; daughter-in-law, Colleen Mahoney of Iowa City; six grandchildren, Stephanie Lockhart of Denver, Joseph Lockhart of Iowa City, Melissa and her husband, Robert Frees of Iowa City, Megan Bishop of Iowa City, Jamie McCabe and Annie McCabe both of Harlingen, Texas; three sisters, Bennie Harrington of West Branch, Josephine and her husband, Charles Fulton of Iowa City, and Dorothy Justice of Ft. Worth, Texas.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Joseph February 21, 1989; six sisters, Anna Krueger, Myrtle Parizek, Louise Bulechek, Lucy Krueger, Pearle Davis, and Cleo Krueger.

Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service of Iowa City is caring for “Tootie’s” family and her services.