OBITUARY: Robert F. McSweeney, 1918-2004, Mitchell Co., Iowa
 
[Adapted from: Mitchell County-Press-News online - Posted Feb. 25, 2004] 
 


                           Robert F. McSweeney

Robert F. McSweeney, 85, of Cedar Falls and formerly of Osage, Iowa,
and Fort Dodge, Iowa, died of heart failure Friday, February 20, 2004
at Sartori Memorial Hospital in Cedar Falls.

He was born November 16, 1918 in Liberty Township, Mitchell County,
Iowa, the son of Stewart Cornelius & Charlotte Agnes (McGrane) McSweeney.
Robert attended Mitchell county schools, graduating from the Little Cedar
High School in 1936. He married Maxine Marie Penney whom he had met in
the first grade in Little Cedar on November 25, 1936 at Cresco, Iowa.

He served in the U. S. Army Air Corp in the European Theatre of
Operations from 1943 to 1945. the family also lived for a time in
Portland, Oregon, Portalise, New Mexico. and Bangor, Maine.  Returning
to Mitchell County after the war, Robert farmed until 1962 when they
moved to Fort Dodge where he was employed at Coats Manufacturing and
then Standard Engineering, until retiring in 1980. Robert and Maxine
moved moved back to Osage in 2000, where they lived until moving to
Cedar Falls to be near their daughter in 2003.

Robert McSweeney had a life long love of horses, raising and showing
quarter horses until he was 75 years old.

Survivors include his wife of 67 years, Maxine McSweeney of Cedar Falls;
his daughter, Kay McSweeney also of Cedar Falls; his grandson, Michael
Higgins of Indianapolis, Indiana; his brother, Richard (Jan) McSweeney
of Hampton, Iowa; and his sister, Phyllis Schrock of Charles City, Iowa,
and dozens of nieces and nephews.

Robert was preceded in death by his parents, one granddaughter in
infancy, one brother, Roland McSweeney of Osage and four sisters,
Marie (sis) Devereaux Williams of New Ulm, Minnesota, Helen Canny of
Osage and Katherine and Patricia McSweeney, both of Osage.

Memorial services will be held March 13 at 10:30 am at Sacred Heart
Catholic Church with inurnment at the Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery,
both in Osage, Iowa.

Dahl-Van Hove-Schoof Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

 
     Copyright 2004, K. L. Kittleson