Leo Francis Nolan (1942)
MULLER, NOLAN, THURMAN
Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 8/7/2006 at 16:30:36
The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, June 3, 1942Former Resident Succumbed Last Wednesday at Iowa City Hospital
Leo F. Nolan, a young man widely known in Winterset which had been his home for several years, died at the state hospital in Iowa City last Wednesday night at the age of 38 years. He had been ill since last November, when he suffered a serious back injury while working at his job with the State Highway commission.
Upon being injured, he was taken to the Iowa City hospital, where, with the exception of a few weeks in a Des Moines nursing home, he remained until his death.
Mr. Nolan was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Nolan of Colony, Kan., and was born in Union township of this county on May 26, 1904. When he was a year old he moved with his parents to Kansas. He attended the public schools at Paola, graduating from high school there, and also attended St. Benedict's college at Acheson, Kan. He returned to Madison county about 1925, and shortly thereafter went to work for the State Highway commission, where he had been employed continuously since that time.
He was married at Winterset on Dec. 26, 1927, to Miss Opal Thurman. They were the parents of one daughter, Patricia Ann.
In addition to the wife and daughter, he is survived by his parents; seven brothers, Lawrence, Bernard, Edward, William and James, all of Colony, Joseph, of the U.S. army, and Phillip of Westphalia, Kan.; and two sisters, Mrs. George Miller of Greeley, Kan., and Mary Agnes, who lives in Ohio.
Funeral services were held Friday from St. Joseph's Catholic church in Winterset, with requiem Mass in charge of the pastor, the Rev. C. Portel. Burial was made in the Winterset cemetery.
_________________________Coordinator's note: Middle name taken from his 1927 Madison County Marriage Record.
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