Margaret Anne "Peggy" Kelleher (1937)

KANE, KELLEHER

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 3/17/2007 at 17:47:04

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, February 26, 1937

DEATH PEGGY KELLEHER

Peggy Kelleher, fifteen year old daughter of Mrs. John Kelleher, of Crawford township, died at the Mercy hospital in Des Moines, early Thursday morning, February 25th after a short illness. The girl had been staying with her grandmother, Mrs. M. Kane, during the school year and was a sophomore pupil at St. Joseph's academy. She became ill Tuesday and was taken to the Mercy hospital, Wednesday evening where she died a few hours later. Doctors stated that she had infantile paralysis.

Funeral arrangements had not yet been made when the Madisonian went to press.

Peggy was the oldest of the Kelleher children. Her father, the late John Kelleher died October 25, 1936. She is survived by her mother and three brothers and three sisters, Jack, Dorothy, Joan, Mary, Dennis and Paul.
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