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Rose A. O’Connor 1874 – 1939

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Sioux City Journal
22 March 1939

Rose A. O’Connor 1874 – 1939

Death Takes Women Long Connected With S.C. Library

Rose A. O’Connor, 65, lifelong resident of Sioux City, who for the last 28 years has represented the public library in visiting institutions for the distribution of books to inmates, died in a local hospital Wednesday after an illness of pneumonia for four days.

Born January 18, 1874 at Alton, Illinois, Miss O’Connor came to Sioux City when an infant and had resided here. At the time of her death she was living at 413 Sioux apartments. She was a member of the Cathedral of the Epiphany and American Library associations.

Survivors include two sisters, Mrs. P.J. Connor and Mary J. O’Connor, both of Sioux City; two nephews, Phil Connor of Wayne, Nebraska and Francis Conner of Wayne, City and one niece, Mrs. F.L. Abel of Norfolk, Nebraska.

The confraternity of the Cathedral will meet in the O’Toole-Gunn funeral Home Thursday at 3 p.m. to recite the rosary.

Sioux City Journal
25 March 1939

Miss Rose A. O’Connor

Many friends attended funeral services in the Cathedral of the Epiphany Friday for Miss Rose A. O’Connor, 65, who for 28 years had headed the hospital and institution services of the Sioux City public library system. Rt. Rev. T.M. Coghlan celebrated requiem mass. Burial was in Calvary Cemetery under direction of the O’Toole-Gunn Funeral Home.

Active pallbearers were George Junk, Tom Malone, Chester Davenport, Franklin Gill, William Carrigg and Virgil DeWitt.

Honorary pallbearers were six nurses from St. Joseph Hospital, dressed in their white gowns and red and blue capes. The were the Misses Ellen Campbell, Joy Dailey, Marion Davidson, Dorothy Harshfield, Margaret Hoekstra and Marguerite Martin, Sioux City’s three other hospitals also were well represented.


 

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