Catharine (Flanagan) Driscoll

DRISCOLL, BUTLER, GORMAN, JACKSON, DEAN, FLANAGAN, BUCK, HANSON, KINNEY, BELDIN, DOOLITTLE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 6/21/2018 at 20:29:34

February 27, 1871 --- April 22, 1948

Mrs. Daniel Driscoll, Former Iowa County Resident, 77, Dies

PARNELL — Mrs. Daniel Driscoll, 77, a former resident in Iowa county, died at a hospital in Cedar Rapids Thursday, April 22, after a brief Illness. Mrs. Driscoll was the grandmother of child film star Bobby Driscoll, star of "Song of the South." She [Catharine Flanagan] was born at Lisbon, February 27, 1871. She married Mr. Driscoll in 1892 at Holbrook. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1942.

Surviving besides the husband are 12 children: Margaret, Frank, Clem, Lavina, Mrs. Marie Buck, Mrs. Anna Mary Butler, and Mrs. Bernadine Gorman, all of Cedar Rapids; Cletus and Daniel of Los Angeles, Joseph of Des Moines, Gerald of Omaha, Mrs. Winifred Jackson of Marion, a brother, Edward Flanagan of St. Louis, Mo., four sisters, Mrs. Anna Hanson, Farley, Mrs. T. P. Kinney, Des Moines, Mrs. Emma Beldin, Chicago, Mrs. Alice Doolittle of Lancaster, Wis. Funeral service was conducted Monday by Rt. Rev. Msgr. D. J. Lenihan at St Patrick's church. Burial was in Mt. Cavalry cemetery at Cedar Rapids.

Iowa City Press Citizen --- Iowa City, Iowa
Thursday, April 29, 1948

Another obituary: Williamsburg Journal Tribune -- Williamsburg, Iowa
Thursday, April 29, 1948