Catherine Agnita "Nita" (Mulcahy) Stark (1892-1969)

MULCAHY, STARK, BLACK, OXLEY, MCCOY, HAMM

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 9/28/2022 at 21:09:02

From Nevada Journal July 27, 1960 (page 3)

Last Rites for Mrs. C. C. Stark Held July 20th

Funeral services for Mrs. Clarence C. Stark, 68, 1122 First street, whose death occurred at the Story County Hospital Sunday, July 17, were held from St. Patrick's Church in Nevada, Wednesday morning at 9:30.

Officiating at the Solemn Requiem High Mass were the Rev. Father J. J. Brickley assisted by Father White of Colo and Ryan of Ames.

The choir of St. Patrick's Church sang the Mass and responses. Mrs. Lawrence Doser was at the organ.

Pall bearers were Gordon Lura, Mike Byers and Lawrence Corbin of Nevada, Glenn Olson and John Dickinson of Colo, and Harley Davis of Marshalltown.

Burial was in the St. James cemetery at Colo.

Obituary

Catherine Agnita Mulcahy Stark was born at Colo, April 28, 1892, the youngest child in a family of 11 children born to Patrick and Julia Doyle Mulcahy. She grew to womanhood and was educated in the Colo rural schools with advanced schooling in "Our Lady of Angels Academy" in Clinton.

On Aug. 14, 191, she was united in marriage to Clarence Carl Stark in St. Mary's Catholic Church in Colo by her brother Father Dan Mulcahy who had been ordained in Rome.

To this union six children were born and reared, four sons and two daughters, Carl Patrick Stark of Colo, Charles Clarence Stark of Lincoln, Neb., John Paul Stark of Nevada, Mrs. Mary Ada Black of Nevada, Mrs. Julia Helen Oxley of West Branch, Iowa and Staff Sergeant Edwin F. Stark of the U. S. Air Force.

Came to Nevada in 1915

Clarence and "Nita" Stark farmed about 25 years in the Colo area following their marriage. They moved to Nevada in 1945.

A faithful member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Mrs. Stark is survived by her husband, Clarence C. Stark, by four sons and two daughters and 21 grandchildren. One grandson, Stephen Stark Black is deceased. She is also survived by one sister, Evangeline Mulcahy.

Mrs. Stark was a member of an early day pioneer family, her father, the late Patrick Mulcahy, helped to build the C. and N.W. Railroad upon his arrival in Iowa from Ireland.

The brothers and sisters who preceded her in death were: Father Dan Mulcahy, Carl Mulcahy, Ann, Mrs. Tom McCoy, Father James Muldaby, Lydia, Mrs. Charles Hamm, Sister Mary Virginia, John Mulcahy, Frank Mulcahy, Frank Mulcahy and Miss Margaret Mulcahy.

Here for Last Rites

Relatives and friends from out of town, here for the last rites were from Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Tama, Marshalltown, State Center, Colo, Ames, Story City, Collins, Rhodes, West Branch, Union, St. Anthony and Zearing.