Mary Ellen (Walsh) DOWD McDERMOTT

WALSH, MCDERMOTT, DOWD, THOMPSON, KNOWLES

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/3/2016 at 20:29:40

June 21, 1865 ---- April 21, 1939

Mrs. Mary McDermott, 69, Dies of Stroke

Mrs. Mary McDermott, 69, died Friday morning, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. B. H. Thompson, 2006 Sixth avenue north, with whom she made her home. Her death, caused by a stroke of apoplexy, was sudden. Mrs. McDermott had made her home in Fort Dodge for 16 years, moving here from Eagle Grove. She is survived by the daughter with whom she made her home, two sons, John Dowd of Templeton, Ia., and Frank J. Dowd of Mandan, N. D.; a step-daughter, Mrs. Katherine Knowles of Chicago and a stepson, the Rev. Father R. M. McDermott of New York. One grandchild, Shirley Thompson, also survives. Both Mrs. Knowles and the Rev. Father McDermott are expected for the funeral. Mr. McDermott died in 1919. Funeral services will take place Monday morning at 9 o'clock at Sacred Heart church in Eagle Grove. The body was taken there Friday.

Fort Dodge Messenger and Chronicle --- Fort Dodge, Iowa
April 22, 1939

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1st husband -- W. J. Dowd