Margaret McDonald McGinness (1959)

MCGINNESS, MCDONALD, MCDOUGAL, CURTIS

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 9/1/2006 at 10:18:47

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
October 21, 1959

MARGARET MCGINNESS Died Here Friday

Mrs. Bertram McGinness, a resident of Madison county for many years, died suddenly Friday, Oct. 16, 1959, at her home in Winterset. She was 87 years of age.

Mrs. McGinness was born in Jones County on Sept. 16, 1872. She was the former Margaret McDonald, daughter of Finley and Anna McDougal McDonald. Since her husband's death in 1947, she had lived in Winterset.

She was a member of the United Presbyterian church.

Nearest surviving relatives are two nephews, Arch D. Curtis of Des Moines and Fred Curtis of California.

Funeral services were held Monday from the Richards Funeral home. Burial was made in the Winterset Cemetery.