Wanda F. McIlrath 1933-1964

MCILRATH, ROUDABUSH

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Date: 10/25/2008 at 11:05:38

Brooklyn (IA) Chronicle; Feb. 13, 1964

MRS. MCILRATH, 30, SERVICES TUESDAY

Mrs. Max McIlrath, 30, the former Wanda Roudabush, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elver Roudabush, died last Friday in Fitzsimmons General Hospital at Aurora, Colo., where she had been a patient since Oct. 14.

Mrs. McIlrath, the mother of a nine year old son, Craig, was a victim of ileitis. She had been hospitalized intermittenly since 1955.

Funeral services were conducted here Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock at Grace Methodist church with the Rev. C.W. Woollard officiating. Leo Schuller was organist.

Interment was in I.O.O.F. cemetery with Don Lender, David Creps, Lester McClenathan, Mervin Morgan, LeVerne Lidtka and Ronald Klein serving as pallbearers. Flower attendants were Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Smith and Mr. and Mrs. James Sherwood.

Wanda Fae McIlrath, daughter of Elver and Velma Roudabush, was born February 28, 1933, in Brooklyn and died February 7, 1964, in Aurora, Colo.

May 24, 1953, she was married to Max McIlrath and one son was born to the couple.

She graduated from Brooklyn High School in 1951 and completed a two year elementary course at State College of Iowa, Cedar Falls. She taught two years at Dysart and later in the schools at Newfoundland where her husband was stationed in the air force.

Mrs. McIlrath was a member of Grace Methodist church.

She is survived by her husband, her son, her parents and a brother, Evan.