Cahill Funeral services were held at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, June 1, 1968 for Mrs. James J. Cahill at St. Edward's Catholic Church, St. Edward, Nebraska. The Reverend James Brady officiated and burial was in the St. Edward Cemetery. Pallbearers were her grandsons, Dan Cahill, Lexington, Jim Thomasin and Kent Cahill, St. Edward, Jerry Cahill, Genoa, Jim Clark, Fremont, and the husband of a granddaughter, Clem Sliva, Jr., Platte Center. Mrs. Cahill died Thursday morning, May 30, at the Fullerton Hospital after having suffered a stroke about noon on the previous Tuesday. Born, Mary E. Breen, at Westside, Iowa, April 24, 1881, she was the daughter of the late Patrick and Maria Farrell Breen. However, when she was a very young child her father died and her mother married William Kealy. Thereafter she was known as Mary E. Kealy. Shortly after her mother's remarriage the family moved from Iowa to Neligh, Nebraska, later to Albion, and finally to St. Edward. On June 7, 1905 Mary Kealy and James J. Cahill were united in marriage at St. Edward's Church, St. Edward. Mrs. Cahill spent the greater part of her life in the St. Edward community, residing on a farm southwest of town. In the fall of 1960 she moved up to Columbus and made her home there with her daughter, Ellen. In 1965 she returned to St. Edward, and lived with her son, Leo, on the family farm. The last year and one-half of her life she spent in Parkview Nursing Home in Fullerton. Other than her parents and step-father, she was preceded in death by her husband, James, on June 30, 1950; a daughter, Mary, who died in infancy; two grandchildren and one great grandchild. Surviving are four sons, Leo of St. Edward, Daniel of Ogallala, Paul of Platte Center and John of Santa Clara, Calif.; four daughters, Sister Mary Ursula of Kirkwood, Missouri, Ellen of Columbus, Mrs. Glenn (Cecilia) Thomazin of Shelby and Mrs. Lyle (Agnes) Clark of Fremont; twenty-three grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren. Mrs. Cahill is survived by two brothers, George Kealy of Sutherland, Nebr., and William Kealy of Council Bluffs, Ia.; and by two sisters, Mrs. Fred (Ellen) Hirsch of Omaha, and Mrs. Henry (Elizabeth) Reitz, of Genoa. Attending the funeral were out of town friends and relatives from Genoa, Columbus, Elgin, Cedar Rapids, York, Platte Center, Sutherland, Ogallala, Shelby, Fullerton, Fremont, Grand Island, Omaha, and Bee, Nebraska, from St. Louis, Missouri, and from Council Bluffs and Story City, Iowa.