Mrs. John Farrell
                                            
  Mrs. John Farrell, nee Katherine Killeen,  was born in Dubuque county,  
  Iowa, February 16, 1870  and died at  St. Anthony's Hospital, Carroll,  
  Iowa December 18, 1947.
  
  In 1908 she was united in marriage to John Farrell. To this union were 
  born two sons, George Cullen Farrell of Burbank, California and Donald  
  J. who died in infancy.
  
  When a small  child she  came with her  parents to  Carroll county and  
  received her education there and taught school before her marriage.
  After her marriage she moved to Adams county, Iowa, and later moved to  
  Minnesota. in 1929  they moved to  Vail and remained  here until death  
  claimed them.  Her husband preceded her in death on April 5, 1933.
  
  Besides her son, she is survived by 2 grandsons, one sister, Mrs. G. W. 
  Cox of Des Moines, and 3 brothers, Thomas, James and Frank Killeen, all 
  of West Side, Iowa. She was preceded in death by one sister, Mrs. Maria 
  Lovely of Arcadia and four brothers, Michael, John, Edward and Patrick.
  
  Funeral services were held at St. Ann's church here on Monday morning, 
  December 22 with burial in the Catholic cemetery in Arcadia.

  No credits listed
  John Farrell was the son of George  Farrell and Jane Cullen, his first  
  wife.
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The expected death of Mrs. John Farrell occurred at her home in Mercer
township  last Monday evening at  7:30  of a complication of  diseases
from which she had been a long and patient sufferer,  aged 48 years, 4
months  and 4 days.  Bridget Welch  was born in  Dubuque county, Iowa,
August 15th, 1856, and married John Farrell, who survives her, Feb. 9,
1892, at Boone, Iowa. They came to this county  in 1896 and located in
Nodaway township where  they resided for a  short time when they moved
to Holt Township, Taylor Co.,  and about five years   ago to the  farm
where her death occurred.  Some time ago she was taken to the hospital
at St. Joseph, Mo., but she did not improve and was returned home, her
diseases being pronounced  incurable.  Besides the husband she  leaves
three brothers, one residing at Boone,  Ia., who has been with her for
the past three months, one in Colorado and  the other in Kentucky. The
remains were taken to  Boone,  Ia., Wednesday,  where the funeral  was
held  from the Sacred Heart Catholic  church on Thursday and interment
made in a cemetery near that city. A large number of the neighbors and
friends accompanied  the remains as   far as Corning where  they  were
placed on No. 3 and went by the way of Council Bluffs.

 Publication unknown. From a newspaper clipping, copy received
 from Michael Buck, Aug. 1999. Retyped by Dennis Nicklaus.
 Adams Co. (in SW Iowa) is the only county in Iowa (or Nebraska) 
 with both a Nodaway and a Mercer Twp.
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			Mrs. Bernita Van Hecke
                                            
  Mrs. Bernita Farrell Van  Hecke, 69 of Moline,  Ill., a former Clinton  
  county resident,  died  Wednesday  January 2,  1974  in  Moline Public  
  hospital. The  funeral will  be at  9:30 a.m.  Friday at  Sacred Heart  
  Catholic church in Moline.  Burial will be  in Calvary cemetery there.  
  Friends may call in Wheelan Funeral Home in Rock Island.
  
  Bernita, daughter of Patrick and Bridget Shannon Farrell, was born June 
  9, 1904 at Davenport, she married Corniel Van Hecke in 1947 in Chicago. 
  she was  employed  at Sears  Roebuck  and Company  in  Davenport until  
  retiring in 1966. Her husband died in 1956.
  Survivors include step daughter, Mrs. Jack Objartal of Rock Island, Mrs. 
  E. E. Trede of Monmouth,  Ill., Mrs. Don Hanna  of Scotland, Ark., and  
  Francis Tritz, of  Remsen, Ia.,  stepsons Robert  and Thomas,  both of  
  Davenport; 16 step grandchildren, 15 step great grandchildren; a sister, 
  Mrs. John O'Connell of Tucson, Ariz., and 2 brothers, Francis Farrell of 
  Villa Park, Ill. and Urban Farrell of Des Moines.
  
  Clinton Herald
  Davenport, Democrat
  January 3, 1974
  Typed by Lyman Morrison, 1994.