John M. O'Brien

OBRIEN, LYNCH, HACKETT, DALTON, MCCORMICK, FLANNERY

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Date: 10/6/2018 at 21:44:34

Columbus Gazette, February 7, 1935, page 1

Gazette readers will learn with much regret of the death of John M. O'Brien at Muscatine, Tuesday of last week, at the Bellevue hospital after an illness of but four days with pneumonia.
Mr. O'Brien has been for many years a frequent contributor to the Gazette on money and other economic questions. He was a keen thinker and devoted to the welfare and interests of the common man.

Mr. O'Brien was born in Muscatine, Iowa, June 2, 1857, the son of Dennis M. and Eliza Lynch O'Brien. He spent his entire life in that vicinity. He never married.

Surviving are a sister, Frances Xavier O'Brien, of St. De Chantel convent at Elfindale, Springfield, Mo., a brother, Dennis O'Brien of near Letts and a sister, Mrs. Thomas Hackett of Letts.

The body was taken to the Fairbanks funeral home where it remained until Thursday morning when it was taken to the St. Mathias church were funeral services were conducted at nine o'clock by the Rev. Father W. L. Hannon. Interment in the Ardon cemetery.

Pallbearers were Michael Lynch, Joseph and John O'Brien, Grant Dalton, Charles McCormick and Mike Flannery.