OBIT: Elmira (Ravenscroft) KERRIGAN, 1940, formerly of Somerset County, PA

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ELMIRA KERRIGAN

  Mrs. Elmira (Ravenscroft) Kerrigan, aged 66, wife of M. J. Kerrigan, retired 
chief train dispatcher of the local division of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 
died at the family home, 307 Belonda Street, Mt. Washington, Pittsburgh, Pa., 
Saturday evening, October 26, at 6:45 p.m., following an illness of seventeen 
weeks.
  Death was attributed to strokes of apoplexy, of which she suffered three in 
rather rapid succession.  The patient was able to be up and about the house 
following the first stroke, but received the second and third within a period of 
eleven days.  She lapsed into a coma at 11:15 a.m. Saturday, from which she 
never rallied.
  Mrs. Kerrigan, before her marriage in SS. Philip and James Catholic Church, 
Meyersdale, October 21, 1897, was Elmira Ravenscroft, daughter of John 
Ravenscroft, of Sand Patch.  Following their marriage they removed to 
Connellsville, where they resided for 36 years prior to locating in Pittsburgh, 
where they have resided for the past seven years.
  Surviving are her husband, Michael J. Kerrigan, three daughters, Margaret, 
Catherine and Genevieve, three sons, William and Thomas, at home, and Joseph, of 
Washington, D.C.  Also surviving are a brother, Howard Ravenscroft, of Sand 
Patch, and a granddaughter.
  Requiem high mass was celebrated in St. Mary's of the Mount Catholic Church, 
Mt. Washington, Pittsburgh, of which the deceased was a devoted member, 
Wednesday, October 29th, at 11:00 a.m., followed by interment in St. Joseph's 
Cemetery, Connellsville.
  The many friends in this community who remember the Kerrigan family join in 
tendering deep sympathy in the great loss they have sustained in the removal 
from their midst of a loyal helpmate, a kind mother and a true and sympathetic 
friend.

Meyersdale Republican, November 7, 1940