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Margaret Isabelle “Maggie” <I>Darrow</I> Ryan

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Margaret Isabelle “Maggie” Darrow Ryan

Birth
Fayette, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
Death
17 Feb 1954 (aged 71)
Freeport, Stephenson County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Moscow, Iowa County, Wisconsin, USA Add to Map
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MRS. JAMES RYAN RITES HELD SATURDAY
Mrs. James Ryan, 71, died Wednesday, February 17, 1954, in Deaconess hospital, Freeport, following a series of strokes.

The rosary was recited in the Saether funeral home at 2 p.m. Friday. Services were held at 9:30 on Saturday morning from the funeral home and at 10 in Immaculate Conception church, Blanchardville, Rev. Harry Lauters officiating. Father Smith of St. Thomas Church, Freeport, gave a very good sermon. He was a very good friend of the deceased and called on her many times at the Deaconess hospital where she had been a patient for the past 1 ½ years and at the home of her daughter Mrs. Max Jacobs, Freeport, where she had lived for three years with the best of care.

Burial was in Calvary cemetery, Blanchardville. Pallbearers were Harry Hanson, Neill Burns, John Cleary, LaVerne Kammerude, Homer Marshall, Frank Hughes.

She was born in Fayette, Lafayette County, on Jan. 6, 1883, the daughter of William and Fannie Lyons Darrow. Mrs. Ryan attended Darrow rural school and Platteville Normal school. She was a telephone operator in Blanchardville.

Mrs. Ryan, the former Margaret Isabelle Darrow, was married Feb. 21, 1906, in Blanchardville and the couple operated the Ryan hotel for several years. She was a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic church and its Altar Society.

She leaves her husband; two daughters, Mrs. H. T. Caraway of Billings, Montana, and Mrs. Max Jacobs of Freeport; two sons, Dr. James L. of Denver, Colo., and Kenneth of Blanchardville; three sisters, Mrs. Oscar Mellom of Freeport, Mrs. William Cassidy of Mineral Point, and Mrs. Roy Schoff of Rockford; four brothers, Thomas of Madison, Joseph of Argyle, David of Rockford and William of St. Petersburg, Fla., and 10 grandchildren.

"Maggie", as the deceased was known by her many friends, was highly respected by all who knew her and will be greatly missed by the family and acquaintances.

Source: Blanchardville Blade, Feb 1954
(JnJSchober)
MRS. JAMES RYAN RITES HELD SATURDAY
Mrs. James Ryan, 71, died Wednesday, February 17, 1954, in Deaconess hospital, Freeport, following a series of strokes.

The rosary was recited in the Saether funeral home at 2 p.m. Friday. Services were held at 9:30 on Saturday morning from the funeral home and at 10 in Immaculate Conception church, Blanchardville, Rev. Harry Lauters officiating. Father Smith of St. Thomas Church, Freeport, gave a very good sermon. He was a very good friend of the deceased and called on her many times at the Deaconess hospital where she had been a patient for the past 1 ½ years and at the home of her daughter Mrs. Max Jacobs, Freeport, where she had lived for three years with the best of care.

Burial was in Calvary cemetery, Blanchardville. Pallbearers were Harry Hanson, Neill Burns, John Cleary, LaVerne Kammerude, Homer Marshall, Frank Hughes.

She was born in Fayette, Lafayette County, on Jan. 6, 1883, the daughter of William and Fannie Lyons Darrow. Mrs. Ryan attended Darrow rural school and Platteville Normal school. She was a telephone operator in Blanchardville.

Mrs. Ryan, the former Margaret Isabelle Darrow, was married Feb. 21, 1906, in Blanchardville and the couple operated the Ryan hotel for several years. She was a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic church and its Altar Society.

She leaves her husband; two daughters, Mrs. H. T. Caraway of Billings, Montana, and Mrs. Max Jacobs of Freeport; two sons, Dr. James L. of Denver, Colo., and Kenneth of Blanchardville; three sisters, Mrs. Oscar Mellom of Freeport, Mrs. William Cassidy of Mineral Point, and Mrs. Roy Schoff of Rockford; four brothers, Thomas of Madison, Joseph of Argyle, David of Rockford and William of St. Petersburg, Fla., and 10 grandchildren.

"Maggie", as the deceased was known by her many friends, was highly respected by all who knew her and will be greatly missed by the family and acquaintances.

Source: Blanchardville Blade, Feb 1954
(JnJSchober)


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