Obituary: Dane County, Wisconsin: Ella O'BRIEN

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Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, <rmontgomery@cishome.com> April 2008

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OBITUARY

Mrs. C. F. O'Brien

Ella Crahen was born on a farm near Oregon, June 26, 1872. She died in
Brooklyn at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Wilma Mason, March 26, 1928. She
was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Crahen.

She was married to C. F. O'Brien November 18, 1892, and to this union were
born two sons and a daughter, Lyle of Dallas, Texas, Otis of Ponce, Porto
Rico, and Mrs. Wilma Mason of Brooklyn. Besides her husband and children
she leaves to mourn her loss her four sisters, Miss Anna Crahen, of
Madison, Mrs. Peter Flood of Albany, Miss Mary and Maggie Crahen of
Brooklyn, three brothers, Andrew and Joe of Brooklyn and Frank of
Bloomfield, Nebraska, three grandchildren, Shirley, Rex and Rona Mason. Two
brothers, Wm. and James, preceeded her in death.

She has always lived near or in Brooklyn where she leaves a host of friends
who will miss her greatly. She was a devout Catholic and a great lover of
children.

She was a member of the Catholic church, the Catholic Ladies Aid and the
American Legion Auxiliary (both her sons having been in service during the
World War.)

Funeral services will be held Friday from the Catholic church at Oregon,
Rev. Fr. Mahoney officiating.

Interment will be at the Catholic cemetery at Oregon.

March 29, 1928, Evansville Review, p. 5, col. 3, Evansville, Wisconsin