OBIT: Mary McDONOUGH, 1890, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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Death of an Aged Lady.

  Mrs. Mary McDonough, wife of Michael McDonough, died at her late 
residence, 1418 Sixteenth avenue, on Saturday morning at 10 o'clock, of 
illness due to old age.  She was aged 73 years, and was born in county 
Clare, Ireland.  She leaves a kind husband and two sons, C. N. Redding, 
and P. H. McDonough, also two brothers and one sister in Ireland.  May 
her soul rest in peace.  The funeral will take place this morning, 
leaving her late residence at 8.30 o'clock and proceeding to St. John's 
Catholic church, where requiem high mass will be celebrated.
    "She was as good as she was fair
      No one on earth above her;
    As pure in thought as angels are,
      To know her was to love her."

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday, October 27, 1890