Anna Mulhern

MULHERN, SCHAFER

Posted By: Judy Kelley, volunteer (email)
Date: 11/7/2009 at 15:52:17

June 29, 1941

Miss Anna Mulhern Died Suddenly Sunday Night

This community was shocked and saddened Sunday by the sudden death of Miss Anna Mulhern at 11:45 Sunday forenoon at the home of her brother, J. A. Mulhern, where she had been invited to take dinner.

She left her own home about 11:30 and walked to the home of her brother just south of the Hull garage. A few minutes after arriving there she indicated she was not feeling well and died from a heart attack within a few minutes.

Anna M. Mulhern, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Mulhern, was born at Nebraska City, Nebraska, August 28, 1873 and came with her parents to Columbus Junction when she was one year old and has since made this her home.

Following her graduation from the Columbus Junction high school she took a business course and later accepted a position in the law office of Attorney C. A. Carpenter, a position she filled most efficiently until his death. Soon afterward she was employed as stenographer and bookkeeper at the Farmers and Merchants state bank and in 1927 when the Columbus Junction state bank was organized here she was elected assistant cashier, a position she filled with credit to her self and to the bank up to the day of her death.

She was at her place Saturday as usual at the first window in the bank, but Monday a beautiful basket of white roses was a mute testimony of the uncertainties of life.

She enjoyed the esteem and confidence of a wide circle of friends. Her experience, her interest in others, her willingness to be of service made her the confidant and advisor of a wide clientele. She was not only willing to advise and cousel but quietly and without notice she gave generously of her means to those in need. In addition to her work at the bank she also served as secretary of the Columbus District board of education, her present term expiring July 1st of this year. She was deeply interested in the school work and maintained a close contact with the teachers and all school activities.

She will be greatly missed in many phases of community life.

She was a member of Trinity Evangelical and Reformed church and also attended and contributed of her means to the Methodist church and other community welfare institutions. Her social life was represented by an active membership in Chapter CX of the P.E.O. Sisterhood.

She is survived by two brothers, J.A. Mulhern of Columbus Junction and J.L. Mulhern of Galesburg, Illinois and one niece, Mrs. Mark Schafer of West Liberty.

Her parents and one brother, W.R. Mulhern, preceded her in death.

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock at the.....

(I was not able to read the rest of the obituary which can be located in a scrapbook at LCHS in Wapello)