OBITUARY: Maggie McCarthy, ????-1896, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Source: Mitchell County Press-News or Mason City Globe Gazette]


                               OBITUARY

"Death loves a shining mark," was never more forcibly illustrated than
in the death of Miss Maggie McCarthy, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James
McCarthy, of New Haven.

Deep sorrow pervades the desolate home, for the young lady was so winning
in her ways, so pure and good, that she had a place in the affections of
her parents, brothers, sisters and friends that nothing else can fill.

She died of heart disease after a illness of only a few days, at the home
of her uncle, Dan McCarthy, at Clifford, North Dakota where she had been
visiting.  Her remains were brought to Riceville Thursday morning and
she was buried Friday morning, at the New Haven Cemetery.

A requiem high mass was celebrated, by Rev. Father Barry, after which
he preached a sermon in which he spoke very kindly of the deceased, and
words of courage and comfort to the sorrowing relatives and friends.
The high esteem in which she was held by all who knew her, was shown
by the large concourse of friends who assembled at her home Friday
morning, to follow her to her last resting place.

The Young Ladies Sodality of Osage, of which she was a member, attended
the funeral in a body.  The floral offerings of the Sodality and other
others were very beautiful.  Miss Maggie was just entering her nineteenth
year, and when she and all of us at that age have so many bright hopes
for the future.

(Oct. 1896)



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