Cullinan, Elizabeth Mrs. Thomas 1866-1942

CULLINAN, LINNAN

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 6/12/2011 at 16:33:04

From the Rock Valley Bee of Jan 30, 1942
Last Rites Held Thursday, Mrs. Thos. Cullinan
Funeral services for Mrs. Thomas Cullinan were held Thursday morning at 10 o'clock; at St. Mary's Chuech Here.
Solemn Requiem Mass was solemnized toy her pastor Rev. Father David McGoey, assisted by Reiv. Father P. J. O'Leary of Rock Rapids and Rev. Father Andres of Trinity College, Sioux City. Her "five sons' Thomas, Jr., John, Michael, Martin and Francis, and her, nephew, Thomas F. Linnan of Maurice, acted as pallbearers. Interment was at St. Mary's cemetery.
That her friends were numerous was evident by the large attendance at her funeral.
As a girl only 13 years old, Mrs. Cullinan. Came to Sioux county with her parents, brothers and sisters the well known Linnan family who settled in Sherman Township, near Maurice, in, 1873. 5 The trip vas made overland from Clayton county, where she was born on December 22, 1866, near Littleport, by wagon train, the children helping to drive the cattle and other livestock on the trip nearly clear across the state. Sloughs filled with every hollow at the time and her younger brother, former county supervisor John Linnan of Maurice recalls how his father in coming to a slough, would unhitch the horses, drive them through then, with the horses on solid footing, snake the wagons through by means of rope long enough to stretch across the slough.
Her husband, who survives, did not come from Ireland, he told The Bee, until a number of
years after his future bride had come to Sioux county.
Among the large number from out of town who attended the last rites Thursday were the following
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Cullinan of Cleveland OH; Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Funk of Edgewood IA; Mrs M. Lucey, her son and two daughter; Frank, Josie and Catherine of Aurora IA; Mr. and Mrs. Luke Limnan, Algona; Mrs. Robert McCool, William, Sr., amd William, Jr., Mir. and Mrs.Joe MicCool, Mrs. Lawrence Mc Laughlin, Bridget, James and Leo Fitzpatrick, and Henry
Eichmun, all of 'Madison S. D.; Mrs. John Solon, Nunda, S. D.; Martin Linnan, Marshall, Minn.; Mrs. Josie Kluge and sons, Marvin and Edwin, Mrs. Mary Cox, all of Altamont, S. D.;
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bamworth, Mrs. P. Fitzpatrick and Martin, and Miss Susan Maher,
Patrick and Elizabeth Cullinan, all of Gary, S. D.; Mr. and Mrs. John Linnan and Joan, Mr. and
Mrs.. Tom Linnan, Will Dohorty and Maureen, Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Doherty, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Buckley, Will and Margaret Mc Donald, E. J. Enright, P. Maasdam, all of Maurice; Rev. Father
WoJfe, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Degen, John, Sehlesser, all of Struble; Mrs. Manning, James
Walpolo and A. L. Moss, all of 'Sioux City; Mr. and Mrs. Matt McCabe, Mr. and Mrs. Angelo
Quinn, Mrs. J. L. Curtis, all of Hull;
Matt Stolon and Mrs. P. J. Sweeney, Larchwood; Mr. and Mrs. Percy Keegan, Austin Me
Namana and James, all of Sioux Falls; Margaret McNamara, Montrose, S D.; Mrs. John Flanagan,
Earl and Bertha, and Mrs. James Flanagan, all of Rock Rapids; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Flanagan, Ganretson, S.D.; .Mr. and Mrs.. Clairence Flanagan, Alvord; and Mrs. John Haas of Iowa Falls.