Mrs. Clara Josephine Bishop

BISHOP, FISHER

Posted By: Rebecca Foster (email)
Date: 9/5/2014 at 10:22:30

YOUNG WIFE'S DEATH FOLLOWS AN OPERATION

Mrs. Clara Josephine Bishop Leaves Husband and Two Children.

Mrs. Clara Josephine Bishop, wife of John J. Bishop of 2719 Arlington avenue, died at Mercy hospital at 7:45 o'clock Saturday night following an operation. She had been in poor health for some time and was taken to the hospital Saturday for an operation but was not able to stand the shock.

Besides the husband two little children, Elaine and John J. Bishop, Jr., survive. The mother Mrs. ?.A. Quinn, of Davenport, two sisters, Mrs. Wilton Grammer of West Chester, Penn., and Miss Gertrude Fisher of Minneapolis and two brothers, Theodore and Harland of Davenport, also survive.

On June ?, 1920 Miss Clara Fisher was united in marriage to John J. Bishop at the Sacred Heart cathedral by the Very Rev. J.T. Flanagan. Mrs. Bishop was born in Maquoketa on February 24, 1894 and has resided in Davenport for the past 16 years.

Funeral arrangements will be announced later.

Source: Davenport Democrat and Leader; Davenport, Ia., 26 Aug 1923.

The Bishop Funeral

The funeral services for Mrs. Clara Josephine Bishop will be held from the home, 2719 Arlington avenue at 8:30 o'clock Tuesday morning, and from St. Paul The Apostle church at 9 o'clock.
Interment will be made in St. Marguerite's cemetery.

Source: Davenport Democrat and Leader; Davenport, Ia., 27 Aug 1923.