OBITUARY: Nellie (Ellen) Mahar (or Maher), 1859-1940, Worth Co., Iowa

[Northwood Graphic, 9/18/1940]



                         Nellie (Ellen) Mahar

Mrs. Nellie (Ellen) Mahar (81) died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. 
Jesse Chilson, Mason City on Friday (Graphic 9-18-1940).  She had 
been visiting her daughter two weeks.  The funeral was conducted by 
the Rev. J. E. Slowey and burial in St. Patrick's Catholic Cemetery.  
Nellie Gilchrist was born January 29, 1859 in LaSalle Co., Illinois.  

She had been a school teacher.  She married Patrick Mahar on November 
28, 1888.  For 29 years she helped her husband on the farm east of 
town.  In 1917 Mr and Mrs. Mahar retired and moved to Lake Mills. 

She is survived by her son John, Lake Mills; two daughters, Angela 
Chilson, Mason City and Rose Marie Victoria, Aurora, Illinois; nine 
grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, Betty and Evelyn Myers, 
Woden; Shirley and Robert Stevens, Mason City.  

She was preceded in death by her husband who died September 13, 1926, 
son James and two daughters, Mrs. Ray Valley and Lenora Mahar.





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