| Mrs. Kelleher
Mrs. Mary Kelleher, 88, of Reynolds, died at 11:30 p.m. Monday
in Mercer County Hospital, Aledo, after an extended illness.
Funeral services will be held at 9:45 in the Crummy Funeral Home
and at 10:30 Friday in St. Ambrose Church in Milan with the Rev. Murphy
officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Rock Island.
The Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. on Thursday in the Crummy
Funeral Home in Reynolds with the Rev. John Callahan officiating.
The former Mary Kelly was born May 15, 1884, in Edgington, a
daughter of Michael and Agnes McDermott Kelly. She received her
education in rural Edgington schools and Normal State Teacher's School.
She taught for many years in the rural Rock Island schools.
On Feb. 15, 1917 she was married to James Kelleher in St. Mary's
Church in Keithsburg.
Mrs. Kelleher was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church in
Edgington and the Altar and Rosary Society.
Survivors include three sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Mack, Viola; Mrs.
Agnes Fitzpatrick, Reynolds; and Mrs. Gertrude Vannice of Aledo; and a
number of nieces and nephews.
Her husband, one brother and one sister preceded her in death.
(Aledo Times Record, Wednesday, October 18, 1972, p. 6) |
