Mrs. Ellen Boyle

BOYLE, LANNAN, HARRINGTON, CLOONEY

Posted By: Rebecca Foster (email)
Date: 7/20/2014 at 18:37:38

This morning at 11 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Maria Lannan, 2319 Farnam street, occurred the death of Mrs. Ellen Boyle, of old age at the advanced age of ninety years.

The deceased was a native of County Sligo, Ireland, where she was born in 1806, and came to this country thirty-five years ago, taking up her residence with her daughter with whom she lived up to the time of her death. The survivors are Mrs. Maria Lannan, at whose home she died, Mrs. M Harrington, Mrs. M Clooney, and Mrs. James Boyle of Kellogg, Ia. The deceased was an eminently respectable lady, beloved by all who knew her and a life long member of the Sacred Heart cathedral parish.

The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock with services at the Sacred Heart cathedral. Interment will be at St. Marguerite's cemetery.

Source: Daily Times, Davenport, Scott, Iowa, 13 December 1896.