| Marguerite C. Mack
Marguerite C. Mack, age 78, of rural Viola died Monday, March
3, 1997 at the home of her daughter, Mary Pechous of Iowa City, Ia.
Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, at the St. John's
Catholic Church in Viola. The Reverend Richard Slavish and the Reverend
James DeBisschop officiating.
Burial will be in the St. John's Cemetery in Viola.
Visitation will be from 3-5 and 7-9 p.m., Tuesday at the
church where a prayer service will be held at 8:30 p.m. Memorials may be
left to the church, the Mercer County Hospital Home Health Care or to
the Iowa City, Iowa Hospice.
Marguerite was born February 10, 1919, in
Keithsburg, Ill., a daughter of Robert J. and Katherine C. O'Malley
Callahan. She received her education from the local Keithsburg schools
and graduated in 1937 from the Immaculate Conception Academy in
Davenport, Ia. She attended Browns Business College in Rock Island, Ill.
She married Donald A. Mack August 30, 1941 at St. Mary's Catholic Church
in Keithsburg. He died March 22, 1992.
Prior to her marriage she was employed at the Bituminous Casualty
Company in Rock Island. She was a homemaker and assisted her husband in
the operation of their family farm.
She was a member of the St. John's Catholic Church where she
served as Eucharistic Minister and Lector. She was a member of the St.
Patricks Society of Davenport, Ia., a charter member since 1944 of the
Mothers Study Club and was a member of the Vila Paint Pots, a local
group of artists.
She enjoyed painting, traveling and gardening.
She is survived by six daughters, Catherine Fagan of Norman,
Oklahoma; Mary Pechous of Iowa City; Rosanne Ganzel of Eagan, Minn.;
Patricia Newswander of Aledo; Irene Barry of Iowa City; and Janice
Albain of Cincinnati, Ohio; four sons, Daniel of Minneapolis, Minn.;
Michael of Sherrard; Bernard of Davenport; and Robert of Fairfield, Ia.;
and 26 grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents and three brothers.
Pallbearers were Patrick Pechous, Jeffrey Pechous, Donald
Pechous, Timothy Pechous, Joseph Newswander, John Fagan, Jr., Tom Mack,
Brian Barry, and Hugh John Barry III.
(Aledo Times Record) |
