M.D. DONEGAN DIED WEDNESDAY

     Michael D. Donegan, 80, died at the home of his son, James, in Des Moines
     Wednesday. Mr. Donegan was a pensioned Northwestern engineer. For the past
     several years with Mrs. Donegan he has been making his home with his son in Des
     Moines. He is a brother of Maurice E. Donegan, chief justice of the Iowa Supreme
     court. Mrs. Donegan is a sister of J.H. Howell of this city. The widow, and six
     children survive, George and John of Phoenix, Arizona, James, and Kathleen of
     Des Moines, Marie who lives in California, and Mrs. Ruth Ball whose home is in
     Missouri.
     Funeral services will be held in Sacred Heart church on Saturday morning at 9
     o'clock. Burial will take place in Calvary cemetery.

     --Eagle Grove Eagle, Thursday, 04-09-1936
     From Jennie Williams.

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		    MRS. RUTH BALL DIES AT AGE 84

Mrs. Bert (Ruth) Ball, 84, of 2 Fairview Homes, died in Kewanee Public
Hospital at 6:30p.m.  Sunday, Nov. 19.  She was born Aug. 24, 1894 in
Eagle Grove, Iowa, the daughter of Michael and Margaret Howell
Donegan. She married Bert Ball in February of 1921 in Galesburg. He
died in 1961.  Surviving are three sons, John Ball of Kewanee, John
Williams of Oklahoma, and Kenneth Williams of Iowa; a daughter, Naomi
Vonesh of London, Canada; 21 grandchildren; 22 great - grandchildren;
two brothers, John Donegan of Prescott, Ariz., and James Donegan of
Gates, Ore., and a sister, Mrs. Marie Hayes of Kewanee.

In addition to her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by
two sisters, a brother, and a son, Maynard Lee Ball.  Mrs. Ball was a
member of the Visitation Catholic Church; Royal Neighbors; Kewanee
Senior Citizens, and Women's Relief Corps.  Services will be at 1:30
p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 22, at the Cavanagh and Schunerman Funeral
Home. Rev. George Remm will officiate.  Interment will be in Evergreen
Memory Gardens.  Visitation is 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 21, at the
funeral home.  Memorials may be directed to the American Cancer
Society.

Unknown paper and date although death was on November 19, 1978 
according to funeral card.
From Jennie Williams.