Obituary of Thomas R. Dolan (b.1874 d.1941), Swift County, MN

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Last Rites For Thomas R. Dolan
Resident of Danvers Community 64 Years
Last rites were held in Danvers, Friday morning December 12, 1941 for Thomas R.  
Dolan, one  Swift county's best known citizens and a resident of the Danvers  
community Since 1877. The West Bank pioneer played active part in the commercial  
and social development of  his community. He served as chairman of the school  
board of  District 98 for many years, He  was a member of the Danvers Rural  
Telephone Co. board of directors and belonged to the Holy Name Society. Mr.  
Dolan died at the Montevideo
Hospital Tuesday morning, December 9, following ten days treatment for heart  
disease. He had been in ailing health for some time.		
Funeral services were held at the Church of The Visitation,  where solemn  
requiem high mass was celebrated by Rev. Father Henry McCall, assisted by Rev.  
Fr. W.O. Wash of Murdock and  Rev. Fr. William P. Delaney of Montevideo. Burial  
was made In The church cemetery.
The acting pallbearers were Robert, Thomas, Frank, Cecil and Richard Dolan and  
Lawrence Carney.  The honorary pall bears were Victor Bonnie, John Ernst,  Henry  
Ernst,  Frank O'Leary, Mike Hughes and Martin Connally.
Mr. Dolan was born in Boston. Mass , on February 21, 1874, and was the last  
surviving son of the late Thomas and Cecelia (Dolan) Dolan. He was three years  
old  when his parents moved to Swift county and settled here in 1877. He spent  
his entire life here with the exception of  two years when his family lived in  
Minneapolis.
Thomas was married to Miss Mary Vandeberg at the Church of the Visitation in  
Danvers on November 9. 1894.
Mr. Dolan is survived by his wife and one daughter,  Mrs Clearence Carruth, and  
grandson John and one sister, Cecelia A. Dolan.  He also had one son, John who  
proceeded him in Death in the year 1933.
Among those from a distance who attended the Funeral were Mrs. J.C. Dolan. Mr.  
and Mrs. LeRoy Vandeberg and daughters, Mary Katherine and Geraldine. Mrs. John  
Ferry, Ann, Virginia, and Betty Jean Dolan, Mr. and Mrs. Kuhn and daughter,  
Virginia; Mr. and Mrs. Ray Morgan,
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard O'Rouke, all from  Minneapolis: Mrs. Frank Kaufman (sister  
of Mrs. Dolan), of Drake, N. D; Mrs. Henry Schorder of Epping, N. D. a sister;  
Teddy Vandeberg of Temple,  N.D.  Brother of Mrs. Dolan Mrs. David Johnston and  
Mable of Litchfield; Tom Ferry, Ed Carney and Dan Burns of Willmar; Mrs. WM.  
Kane and son, Allen, and daughter, Loretta of Murdock; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence  
Tisdahl,  Miss Beatrice O'Halloran and Moran O'Halloran of Olivia.