William J. Monaghan

BALLART, MCALEXANDER, MCKINLEY, MCNAMARA, MONAGHAN

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 3/10/2006 at 21:43:16

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, January 28, 1998

WILLIAM J. MONAGHAN, Chicago

William J. Monaghan, 77, died of a heart attack Friday, Jan. 23, 1998, at his Chicago, Ill., home.

Mr. Monaghan was born in Madison County Nov. 19, 1920, to John F. and Mary Jane McKinley Monaghan. He graduated from Winterset High School in 1939, from Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., and did graduate work at the University of Missouri. During WW II, he served with the 16th Armored Division of Patton's Third Army, receiving the Bronze Star. He was employed in medical public relations for more than 26 years with the American Medical Association and the Chicago Medical Society where he edited the journal, Chicago Medicine, retiring in 1985. Prior to moving to Chicago, he was executive assistant to the Iowa Republican State Central Committee, the managing editor of the Perry Daily Chief, the city editor of the Newton Daily News and was chairman of the Iowa Associated Press Managing Editors Association. He was a member of the American Legion and a charter member of the Veterans of Foreign War post in Winterset.

In 1955, Mr. Monaghan was married to Katherine McNamara, a Winterset native, who survives him. Other survivors are two daughters, Mary Marguerite (husband Ralph) Ballart and K. Ann (husband Bradley B.) McAlexander; four grandchildren; and a sister, Mary Joan Monaghan of Winterset.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, John F. Monaghan, Jr.

A funeral mass was held Tuesday, Jan. 27, at Saint Mary of the Woods Church in Chicago. Interment was in St. Patrick's Cemetery in the Irish Settlement.

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