Mrs. Thos. Dunn In Final Sleep

This community was saddened last Friday morning when it learned of the
death of Mrs. Margaret Dunn, an old time resident of Crawford county.

Mrs. Dunn was a good mother, a faithful wife, a patient sufferer and a
devout  christian. She  was held  in highest  esteem for  her splendid
character and a life devoted to good deeds. In her death the community
has lost a dear, amiable  and unselfish friend. She carried the riches
of God within herself and was greatly beloved by all.

Margaret  Lawler  was  born  May  9,  1844,  Timahoe,  Queens  county,
Ireland.  She  came to  America  in  1849  and located  at  Lexington,
Kentucky.  In 1855  accompanied by the rest of her  family she came to
Clinton  county, Iowa,  settling  near DeWitt,  where  they lived  for
several years. In 1865 she was  married to Thos. Dunn and in 1872 they
moved  on  a farm  in  Jackson  township,  Crawford county,  in  which
township she has  resided until her death.  Her  husband preceeded her
in death twenty years ago.  Besides  his dear soul five small sons and
one daughter  had passed  away, they being  victims of an  epidemic of
diptheria  in 1880,  also a  stepson, John  Dunn, who  died  at Staten
Island, New York, Sept. 23, 1917.

Mrs. Dunn leaves to moun her loss one daughter Josephine, whose loving
care  greatly lightened  her  mother's last  days,  two devoted  sons,
Claire  and Leo,  two small  grandchildren, Margaret  and  Joseph, one
sister,  Mrs.  Alicia Kealy,  of  Hastings,  Nebr.,  and one  brother,
Patrick Lawler,  who made his home  with Mrs. Dunn.  Also many nieces,
nephews other relatives and neighbors.

Funeral  serves  were  held  in  Wall  Lake,  Monday,  January  19  at
St. Joseph's Catholic church of which she was a devout member, where a
Requiem High  Mass was  celebrated.  Rev. James  Slattery officiating,
after  which  the body  was  taken  to Arcadia  and  laid  to rest  in
St. John's cemetery beside her husband and six children.

Pallbearers were  the following  nephews: Joseph Cudddy,  Will Lawler,
Lew Kerrigan, Daniel Lawler and Joseph Kealy.

Friends and relatives from a  distance here to attend the funeral were
Mrs.  Dunn's sister,  Mrs. Alicia  Kealy and  son Joseph  of Hastings,
Nebr., Daniel  Lawler, son  Louis and Edward  Lawler of  DeWitt, Iowa,
John W.  Dunn of Long  Grove, Will Boyle  of Staten Island,  New York,
Mrs. Catherine  Breen and  Miss Regina Walsh  of Omaha,  Elizabeth and
Kathering  Kerman of  Hastings, Nebr.,  and many  other  relatives and
friends from surrounding towns.

Wall Lake Blade
Thursday, January 22, 1931