Dorsey, Agnes Mary (infant), 1936-1936

DORSEY, LOWERY, LAWREY

Posted By: Lydia Lucas - Volunteer (email)
Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:37

From the Alton Democrat, May 8, 1936, Rock Valley news:

Agnes Mary Dorsey, infant daughter of Mrs. Albert Dorsey, nee Anna May Lowery of Rock Valley, passed away Wednesday noon. Agnes Mary was born in Saint Monica’s Home in Sioux City, Iowa, January 21, 1936, passed out of this life April 29, 1936. She was three months and eight days old. Death due to bronchial pneumonia. The burial ceremony was performed Friday morning by Rev. A. J. Foerster. A short ceremony was performed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Lowery on Friday morning and was laid to rest Friday morning in the St. Mary’s cemetery.

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She does not appear in the Sioux County Cemetery Index.

Her death certificate adds her father, Albert Dorsey, born in Iowa, and spells her mother’s name Anna May Lawrey; resident of Hawarden, Iowa; died at St. Vincent Hospital, Sioux City, at 10 a.m. April 29, 1936; cause, broncho pneumonia (primary), onset April 6, 1936; buried at Rock Valley.

Albert Dorsey had died in May 1935.