Catherine O’Neill Died 1920

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Posted By: Connie Swearingen -Volunteer (email)
Date: 12/2/2018 at 15:35:54

Sioux City Journal
4 March 1920

Dies Of Sleeping Sickness
Catherine O’Neill Victim of Strange Malady
Is Attacked By Influenza
This Illness Developed Into the Other—Had Been Employed by Dr. S. e. Sibley as a Nurse for Fourteen Years

Miss Catherine O’Neill, 44 years old, a nurse of Sioux City for twenty years, died at 4 o’clock yesterday morning at the St. Joseph hospital after a short illness with sleeping sickness.

Miss O’Neill was taken ill of influenza a week ago. On Saturday last she was suddenly taken worse and died Tuesday morning of what attending physicians termed as sleeping sickness.

The case is one of the few that have been reported in Sioux City since the strange malady became known to medical science.

Miss O’Neill was for fourteen years in the employ of Dr. S. E. Sibley. She graduated from the St. Joseph school of nursing twenty years ago and had engage in the practice of nursing up to the time of her illness and death.

Surviving are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. O’Neill of Philip, South Dakota; four sisters- Durette O’Neill of 1300 Pearl Street; Mrs. J. C. Roberson of Denver, Colorado; Mrs. S. A. Waldron of Tracy, Minnesota and Mrs. William Tharp of Piedmont, Oklahoma – and two brothers, John O’Neill of Dallas, South Dakota and J. P. O’Neill of Sioux City.

The funeral will be held tomorrow morning at 9 O’clock from the Cathedral of Epiphany. Burial will be in Mt. Calvary Cemetery.