| Mrs. Bridget Quinn Memorial
Funeral services for Mrs. Bridget Swift Quinn, who fell asleep
in death on Wednesday, March 3rd, 1920, were held this morning at nine
o'clock at St. James Church. The funeral sermon was preached by her
pastor, the Rev. Fr. Hartigan, and interment was in Elm Grove Cemetery.
The pallbearers were eight of her grandnephews, Francis Swift, Harry
Swift, Thomas Swift, Leo Bruty, Dennis Flynn, Bryan Swift, Lloyd Swift
and Bernard Walker.
Mrs. Quinn was the widow of Thomas Quinn and was ninety years
old, having been born August 15, 1829, in Cork, Ireland. She was the
mother of nine children, of whom three girls and one boy survive their
mother, and these children were all at her bedside at the time of her death.
She was a woman of wonderful vitality and enjoyed excellent
health up to about February 22nd of this year. During her last illness
she displayed great patience and consideration for others, and although
she was of so advanced an age, her mind remained clear and true to the last.
To her children, she was the ideal mother, and her love reached
out also to include those outsider her immediate family. Upon her
grandson, William Quinn, who lost his mother when a small lad, she
lavished a wealth of affection, bringing him up as one of her own
children. Her neighbors had for the highest regard and esteem, and speak
of her unselfishness and unassuming disposition as among her qualities of spirit.
Her character throughout her long and busy life was such as would
commend to others a belief in the Christian religion. She was a devout
member of St. James church, and so faithful in her attendance upon its
services that she had often walked many miles in order to attend mass at
times when she would have otherwise been unable to be present.
"For her whole life has been one of deep, abiding faith and
ardent love of God, death came devoid of errors."
(Washington Journal, Washington, Iowa, March 1920) |
