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Re: Daniel E. Driscoll

DRISCOLL, BUTLER, BUCK, GORMAN, JACKSON, FLANAGAN, HANSON, KINNEY, BELDIN, DOOLITTLE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 6/21/2018 at 20:30:27

In Response To: Daniel E. Driscoll (Matt Driscoll)

Based on the year of death located by Marilyn, I was able to locate an obituary for Daniel E. Driscoll and his wife Catharine (Flanagan) Driscoll.

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April 7, 1869 --- May 6, 1956

Dan E. Driscoll, 87, of 412 Sixth street SW , retired farmer and a Cedar Rapids resident 22 years, died in a Cedar Rapids hospital at 6:15 a.m. Sunday after a long illness. Born in Illinois April 7, 1869, he came to Cedar Rapids from Iowa county. He was affiliated with St. Patrick’s church. Surviving are six daughters, Miss Margaret Driscoll, Anna Mary Butler, Bernadine Gorman and Winnifred Jackson, all of Cedar Rapids. Lavina Dean of Marion, and Marie Buck of Pacoima, Calif.; six sons, Frank and Clem, of Cedar Rapids, Cletus and Daniel, of Los Angeles, Joseph of Des Moines, and Gerald, of Omaha: 36 grandchildren, one of whom is Bobby Driscoll, movie star, and 32 great-grandchildren. His wife to whom he was married in Holbrook in 1892 died in 1948.

Services will be conducted in St. Patrick’s church at 9 am., Wednesday by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. D. J. Lenihan. Burial will be in Mt. Calvary cemetery. Msgr. Lenihan will recite the Rosary at 8 pm Tuesday, and the Knights of Columbus at 8:30 pm Tuesday at the Teahen chapel, where friends may call after 7pm Monday.

Cedar Rapids Gazette ---- Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Monday, May 7, 1956

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February 27, 1871 --- April 22, 1948

Mrs. Daniel Driscoll, Former Iowa County Resident, 77, Dies

PARNELL — Mrs. Daniel Driscoll, 77, a former resident in Iowa county, died at a hospital in Cedar Rapids Thursday, April 22, after a brief Illness. Mrs. Driscoll was the grandmother of child film star Bobby Driscoll, star of "Song of the South." She [Catharine Flanagan] was born at Lisbon, February 27, 1871. She married Mr. Driscoll in 1892 at Holbrook. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1942.

Surviving besides the husband are 12 children: Margaret, Frank, Clem, Lavina, Mrs. Marie Buck, Mrs. Anna Mary Butler, and Mrs. Bernadine Gorman, all of Cedar Rapids; Cletus and Daniel of Los Angeles, Joseph of Des Moines, Gerald of Omaha, Mrs. Winifred Jackson of Marion, a brother, Edward Flanagan of St. Louis, Mo., four sisters, Mrs. Anna Hanson, Farley, Mrs. T. P. Kinney, Des Moines, Mrs. Emma Beldin, Chicago, Mrs. Alice Doolittle of Lancaster, Wis. Funeral service was conducted Monday by Rt. Rev. Msgr. D. J. Lenihan at St Patrick's church. Burial was in Mt. Cavalry cemetery at Cedar Rapids.

Iowa City Press Citizen --- Iowa City, Iowa
Thursday, April 29, 1948

Another obituary: Williamsburg Journal Tribune -- Williamsburg, Iowa
Thursday, April 29, 1948

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