Ann (Maloney) Collins (1853-1935)

MALONEY, COLLINS

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:12

From Nevada Evening Journal November 1, 1935 (page 1)

FORMER NEVADA WOMAN INTERRED

BODY OF MRS. ANN COLLINS BROUGHT HERE FROM WAVERLY

Committal services for the late Mrs. Ann Collins of Waverly, sho for thirty-seven years had been a resident of Story county, were held in Nevada Thursday afternoon.

The funeral cortege, accompanying the remains to Nevada, was met at St. Patrick's cemetery by a large number of Story county friends, many of whom were from Colo where the deceased had lived from 1885 to 1922 when she moved to Nevada.

During the brief, but impressive interment service, the casket was opened that the many old time friends might view the remains.

The funeral services had been held in the Waverly Catholic church at 9:30. In addition to a large number of visiting clergy, the Reverend Arch-Bishop J. J. Beckman of Dubuque and Bishop Nohlman of Davenport were in attendance at the services.

The funeral cortege, made up of a dozen or more cars, left Waverly at 12:30, arriving here about 3:30. Burial was by the side of the husband, the late John Collins, who died at his home on Lincoln avenue in Nevada on June 2, 1922.

Mrs. Collins passed away at the home of her son, the Rev. Fr. T. R. Collins at the Catholic parochial residence in Waverly on last Tuesday morning at 9:30. Her death followed a period of declining health which had covered a number of months.

She is survived by her only son, Rev. T. R. Collins of Waverly and a daughter, Sister Mary Joesphita, who is Superior at St. Patrick's school in Cedar Falls. An elder daughter, Sister Mary Girolamo, died in Dubuque in 1901.

She is also survived by a sister, Miss Katherine Maloney of Chicago and a brother, Thomas Maloney of Chicago. The latter and his wife were among the group of twenty Chicago relatives to be in Waverly and Nevada for the funeral and interment services.

The deceased was born in Cook county, Ill., May 40, 1853. She was married to John Collins on Nov. 3, 1874 and until 1885, when they moved to a farm south of Colo, they lived in Lamont and Orland, Ill.

Following the death of the husband, she went Waverly to make her home with her son, who is pastor of the Waverly Catholic church.