Donald F. MULHERN

MULHERN, JUDD, BEHRENDS, KOOSER, TILLMAN, HARRIS

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 4/29/2016 at 22:01:32

December 19, 1915 -- July 21, 1982

Funeral services for Donald F. Mulhern, 66, of Buckeye, Iowa were held at 2 p.m. on Friday, July 23rd at the Surls Funeral Home in Alden, Father Louis C. Zee of Williams, Iowa, officiating. Burial was in the Clarion Cemetery. Mr. Mulhern died at Veterans Hospital in Des Moines on July 21. Donald was born on December 19, 1915 in Austin, Minnesota, and was the son of William and Clara Judd Mulhern. He was a soldier in World War II, and after the war, he returned to farm in southern Minnesota for many years. Donald lived in Buckeye for the past ten years, where he owned and operated Don's Place. He was married on May 25, 1972 to Betty Behrends of Galena, Illinois.

He is survived by his wife Betty; her son William Behrends, Jr; her grandson, William Behrends, III; one brother, William Mulhern of Clarion, and three sisters, Irene Kooser of Ames, Faye Harris of Mason City, and Dorothy Tillman of Davenport. He was preceded in death by his parents and one sister, Margaret. He was a member of the V.F.W. Post in Sherburn, Minnesota.

July 29, 1982
Wright County Monitor -- Clarion, Iowa