OBITUARY: Mary Louisa Heal Schersach, Mitchell County, Iowa

(1877-1965)

                     FUNERAL FOR MRS. MARY SCHERSACH

Funeral services for a lifelong resident of the Osage community, Mrs. Mary
Schersach, 88, were held Monday morning at Sacred Heart Catholic church in
Osage. Mrs. Schersach had been in failing health since August, and was
confined to Mitchell County Memorial Hospital where she died Friday
afternoon. (Dec. 17, 1965)

The Rev. Father Thomas J. Conroy, church pastor, was in charge of the
services. Arrangements were by C. R. Champion and Sons, and burial was
in the Osage Cemetery.

Mary Louisa Heal was born Jan. 6, 1877, near Osage, the daughter of
Joseph and Catherine Powers Heal. She attended the rural schools in
her area.

Her marriage to Fred Schersach of Osage took place Sept. 5, 1906. They
established their home on a farm west of Osage. This remained their home
until they retired to Osage in 1953. 

Mrs. Schersach was a lifelong member of Sacred Heart church.

Her survivors include her two daughters, Mrs. Catherine Kelly and Mary
Schersach of Osage, and four grandchildren.

Preceding her in death were her husband, Fred, her parents; two brothers
who died in infancy; two sisters, Katherine Heal and Mrs. Anna Rogers.




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