Beckham County, OK - Obits: Mrs. James O'Donnell, 1924
Thursday, 11 Sep 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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O'DONNELL, MRS. JAMES
(19 Jun 1924, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Mrs. James O'Donnell
Died May 24, 1924, at home of her daughter, Mrs. Catherine Welsh, 
Odell, Ill.  Funeral was held on Thursday, May 29, from St. Paul 
Catholic Church.  Services were conducted by Rev. Father J. P. 
Barry, pastor.  The deceased was born Dec. 25, 1849 at Colnmel, 
County Waterford, Ireland, being the daughter of Catherine Keefe 
and James Downey.  She spent her early girlhood in that country.  
At the age of twenty-three years she was united in marriage to 
James O'Donnell.  To this union was born seventeen children:  
P. O'Donnell and Mrs. C. Welsh of Odell; John of Collis, Minn.; 
James and Michael of Elk City, Oklahoma; William, Richard and Mrs. 
Kobler of Chicago; Lorrance of Niles, Mich.; Mrs. Chas. Premersdorfer 
of Bloomington; Mrs. L. R. Jalbert of Arcadia, California; Miss 
Margaret O'Donnell of Ransom, Ill.; Sister Loretto, B. S., known 
as Mary O'Donnell of Hamilton, Ohio; four children preceded her in 
death - Ellen, Edward, Ilane and Francis.  Her husband died in 1916.  
She has living, two brothers and four sisters, Patrick Downey of 
South Dakota, and William Downey of Pontiac, Ill.; Mrs. Cornelius 
Turner of Odell; Mrs. A. Murphy, Central City, Ky.; Mrs. John 
Hornbaker of Pontiac, Ill.; Mrs. James Fitzjearls, Pontiac, Ill.; 
and two brothers dead, James and John, and one sister, Ellen.
Mrs. O'Donnell came to Odell with her husband and two sons, 
Patrick and John, Nov. 1, 1874, and had spent the greater part of 
her life in this vicinity.
She was the grandmother of twenty-nine grandchildren and three 
great-grandchildren.
Those from out of town who attended the funeral were:  Mrs. Daniel 
Winke and son, Daniel, Miss Marguerite Kane of Cincinnati, Ohio, 
Mr. J. Welsh, of Williamsfield, Ill., Mr. and Mrs. John Riordan and 
family of Joilet, Mrs. Marguerite Tannor and family, Miss Nellie and 
Joe, Daniel and Jerry Flynn, Wm. Tague, John Downey, all of Chicago; 
Michael Flynn, Streator, Rev. Father Kenrick, Ransom, Ill., Mrs. Mary 
Judge and family, Miss Sarah Cassidy, Miss Marguerite Powers, Mrs. 
Delanty, Mrs. James Stacks, Wm. Kripple, Mrs. A. Campbell, Mrs. Geo. 
Wolf, Ed. Downey and family, John Hornbaker and family, Wm. Hornbaker 
and wife.  James Fitzjearls and wife, all of Pontiac.
Strengthened by the life-giving Sacraments of her Church, surrounded 
by the members of her family, with a prayer on her dying lips, the soul 
of Mrs. O'Donnell took its flight back to the God from whence it came 
on the evening of May 24th.  May the coveted rest and joy be hers today, 
and having imitated her virtues, may her peaceful death be ours. 
 - Odell, (Ill.) Weekly News. 

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