Obit of Mrs. Mary E. SEXTON (b.1853 d.1939), Wabasha Co., MN

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Mrs. Mary E. Sexton, a resident of Hyde Park township for 66 
years passed away at her home on Wednesday October 11 after a 
few days illness from a heart attach. She was 86 years old.

 Mary Baker was born July 5 1853, at Cumberland Maryland. When 
a young women she came with her father to Wabasha. Her father, 
Joseph Baker, built St. Patrick's church at West Albany. 
On Nov. 8, 1873, she married at Wabasha to John Sexton by 
Father Trobec. She went with her husband to the farm home 
in Hyde Park where she has since resided.

 Children surviving her are Mrs. Leonard Voyer, St. Paul; 
Mrs. John Thornton, Zumbro Falls; Mrs. Frank Hall, Millville; 
Sister Venantia of St. Agatha Conservatory, St. Paul; Josephine 
at home; Mrs. Herman Laqua, Millville; Thomas and Edmund, 
Millville; Walter and Leo at home. There are thirty-one 
grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Brothers and 
sisters surviving are Henry Baker, Starkweather, N.D.; 
William Baker, Detroit Lakes; Margaret and Catherine, 
Devils Lake, N.D.

  Funeral services were held on Saturday morning by Rev. 
Father Urdan Buckheit at St. Patrick's church at West 
Albany and burial was made in the church cemetery. Six 
grandsons ere the pall bearers, Edmund Thornton, James 
Thornton, Robert, John and Richard Sexton and Leanord Voyer.

Published in the Plainview News  Oct. 1939