Mary Theresa (Hood) HART

HOOD, HART, BROADHURST

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/3/2016 at 18:46:04

July 25, 1889 ---- October 26, 1973

Mrs. John F. Hart, 84, died very unexpectedly at her home Friday morning. Mrs. Hart was not ill, and when she was strickened was standing, at the stove preparing breakfast for her son Hubert of Chicago who was sitting in the kitchen visiting with his mother.

She spoke his name, and Hubert was able to reach her and she died minutes later.

She is survived by two daughters and six sons: Sister Theresa, O.P. Sinsinawa, Wis. and Mrs. Kenneth Broadhurst, Jackson Heights, Long Island, N.Y.; John L., Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Thomas J., Eagle Grove; Hubert M., Chicago, Ill.; Emmet J., Mason City; Lawrence, Dubuque; and Patrick of Des Moines; 18 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Monday morning at 11 o'clock in Sacred Heart Church with burial in Calvary Cemetery.

Concelebrants at the funeral mass were Rev. E. W. Lechtenberg, Rev. J. J. Brickley of Britt; Rev. Cosimer Reubgis, Tiskilwa, Ill.; Rev. Louis E. Ermsdorff, Loras College, Dubuque; Rev. John Gallagher, Jesup; Rev. Piorkowski, Galena, Ill. and Rev. Thomas Hart, Fort Dodge.

Lector was Eugene Hart, a grandson, and acolytes were grandsons, Emmet and Timothy Hart, Mason City, and Brian Hart of Bowie, Md. Casketbearers were Mrs. Hart's six surviving sons.

Mary Theresa Hood was born at Clare, Ia. and graduated from St. Mathews School. She married John F. Hart in Clare in 1911 and they made their home in Eagle Grove where Mr. Hart was an engineer for the Chicago and North Western R.R. He preceded her in death in 1952, as well as two sons, Eugene in 1931 and Joseph in 1972.

For many years the Hart family has lived at 416 SE 2nd Street, and their home was your home. Noted for hospitality, innumerable gatherings at all times of the year, were hosted by Mrs. Hart, and rarely did former residents visiting in town fail to call on her.

She was a member of Sacred Heart Church, the Catholic Daughters of America, the Grand International Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.

She was an accomplished musician and an artist of note. Her paintings have been entered in the Eagle Grove Art Fairs, and also in neighboring towns and she won many ribbons for her work.

For many years she served on the Adult Education Council, of the Eagle Grove Schools, which arranged adult night classes at the high school.

Around 100 friends of Mrs. Hart and her family were here Sunday from Chicago, Dubuque, Des Moines and other cities to pay their respects to the family.

EAGLE GROVE EAGLE ---- Eagle Grove, Iowa
November 1, 1973

Source --- Paul Wilde