Catherine Toson (1960)

TOSON, GOODWIN, CROFT, WINKLER

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 8/24/2006 at 18:10:41

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
March 1960

CATHERINE TOSON Dies At 90 Years

She Had Operated North Side Restaurant Here for
19 Years

Mrs. Catherine Toson, a well-known resident of Winterset for many years, died Friday, March 25, 1960, in Des Moines, where she had made her home since 1919.

Mrs. Toson was 90 years of age. She was a native of Italy, but came to this country as a young woman in 1892. She was married in Omaha to Raymond Toson, and they moved to Des Moines for a few years before coming to Winterset in 1900.

Mr. and Mrs. Toson purchased the North Side cafe in Winterset in 1900. After her husband died in 1903, Mrs. Toson continued to operate the restaurant until 1919, when she sold out and moved to Des Moines.

Mrs. Toson was one of Winterset's Gold Star mothers during World War I. Her youngesst son, Livo, was killed in action in France while serving with Winterset's Company A 168th Infantry regiment.

Surviving are a son, Dante Toson, with whom she has made her home in Des Moines; and three daughters, Mrs. Rena Goodwin of San Francisco, California, Mrs. May Croft of Winterset, and Mrs. Josephine Winkler of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. She also leaves two grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

Funeral services were held this Tuesday from St. John's Catholic church in Des Moines. The body was brought to Winterset later that morning for burial in the Winterset cemetery with grave-side services conducted by the V. Rev. Msgr. John Higgins, pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic church at Winterset.