Shea, Mary (Waters) 1853 - 1943

SHEA, WATERS, PRICE, WEISER, THRO

Posted By: Bill Waters (email)
Date: 4/3/2015 at 15:51:07

MRS. MARY SHEA
Decorah, Ia. - SPECIAL:
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Shea, 90, were held here Monday morning at 9 o'clock at St. Benedict's Church with the Rev. M. E. Nolan, pastor officiating, burial was made in the Catholic Cemetery.

Mrs. Shea died Friday at her home after a long illness. She was the former Mary Waters and was born April 22, 1853 at Morristown, N. Y., a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Waters. The family came to Winnescheik County when she was a young girl and she married Dan Shea on December 28, 1875. Mr. Shea a member of the teaching staff at West Decorah Public Schools, later served as Winnisheik County Schools Superintendent from 1885-1891. he died April 2, 1908.

Five children survive; Mrs. Mae Price, E. P. Shea, and Mrs. Jennie Weiser, all of in Decorah; Lester in California, and Mrs. Linn Thro of Manketo, Minn. Three children preceded her in death.

Dubuque Telegraph Herald 1943

Submitted by: Cheryl Locher Moonen

St.. Benedict Cemetery Gravestone
 

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