Peter Lawler Dies at Hospital
	   Funeral at the Catholic Church in Wall Lake Last Friday.
			     (Mrs. Ethel Hayden)

WALL LAKE -- Peter Lawler, whose illness has been noted several times in these
columns, and  who was removed to St.  Anthony hospital at Carroll  for care on
May 12, died there on May 24 and was brought home for burial.  He was born May
3, 1853, at  Lexington, Kentucky. When a child of two  years his parents moved
to Clinton  county and  later to  Sac county where  the rest  of his  life was
spent. On Feb.  22, 1886, he was  united in marriage to Hanna  Murphy at Vail.
They made their home on the farm for many years raising their family there and
moving into Wall Lake in 1917, where they have made their home ever since.

Since September  last year his health  has been steadily failing  and his wife
cared for  him with some help  at times until  the burden became so  great she
could do so no longer, when  she reluctantly consented to have him  removed to
the  hospital for  care.  His  wife and  the members  of the  family  had been
apprised of his condition and were at his bedside when he died.

The funeral was held at St. Joseph's church in Wall Lake on Friday, May 27, at
9 a.m. and interment was in the Wall Lake Catholic cemetery.  He leaves behind
his wife, two  sons, John of Detroit and Vincent of  Wall Lake; two daughters,
Sister   Mary   Loyola  of   Leila   hospital,   Battle   Creek,  Mich.,   and
Mrs. Thos. Maher  of Carroll; sixteen grandchildren and  one great grandchild.
Two of his daughters  have died before him, Pearl, who died  on Jan. 1, 19013,
and Mrs. Ed White who died Sept. 19, 1926.

Rev.  Father Slattery said  the mass.  The pall-bearers  were John  Kelly, Ian
McLaughlin, Will  Kelly, ...  

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The Sac Sun, Sac City, Iowa, June 2, 1932.