Leonard Shannon
                                            
  Leonard Shannon 67, of 1809  8th Ave. S. died  Sunday morning in Mercy  
  Hospital in Clinton. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday 
  in Sacred Heart church. Rev. Paul Wetzstein will officiate. Burial will 
  be in St.  Mary's cemetery. Pallbearers  will be  John Connole, Hobart  
  Boysen, Cleo  McDevitt,  Alvin  Pottratz,  Lloyd  Hinerichsen, Donald,  
  Norbert and Virgil Shannon.
  
  Friends may call after 7 p.m. today at Hanrahan funeral home in De Witt. 
  Visitation  will  also  be  held  after   2:30  p.m.  Tuesday  in  the   
  Snyder-Schmitz Funeral Home in  Clinton where the KC's  will meet at 7  
  p.m. and a parish office of the dead will be said at 8 p.m.
  
  Mr. Shannon was born March 4th,  1901 in De Witt, the  son of the late 
  Michael and Margaret McClimon Shannon. He married Rosemary Costello on 
  February 11, 1930 in Petersville.
  
  Mr. Shannon  worked  30 years  for  Carstensen Freight  Lines  Inc. in  
  Clinton. He retired  in 1965. for  the last  two years he  was the bus  
  driver for the Pilot's baseball team. He was a member of the Knights of 
  Columbus and the Holy Name Society of Sacred Heart Parish.
  
  Survivors include his wife, five sons; Edward, Richard, John and Robert, 
  all of Clinton and  Michael of De Witt;  three daughters, Miss Theresa  
  Shannon, Mrs. Jack  (Darlene) Kuehl,  both of  Clinton and  Mrs. James  
  (Patricia) Judge.
  
  Clinton Herald
  November 18,1968
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
                           Mrs Leonard Shannon
                                            
  Mrs. Rosemary Shannon, 64, 1809 8th Ave  S. died this morning in Mercy  
  hospital. The Mass of the Resurrection will be said at 10 a.m. Wednesday 
  in Sacred Heart church with the Rev.  E. J. Weeg officiating. A prayer  
  service will precede the  Mass at 9:30  a.m. in Snyder-Schmitz Funeral  
  Home. Burial will be in St. Mary's cemetery. Visitation will be after 2 
  p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home where the Parish Rosary will be recited 
  at 7 p.m.
  
  Born December 13, 1909 in Petersville, she  was the daughter of Daniel 
  and Mary Agnes Wagner Costello. She married Leonard Shannon February 11, 
  1929 in De Witt. He died November 17, 1968.
  
  She was a  member of  the Sacred  Heart church,  the Altar  and Rosary  
  Society and Women of the Moose.
  
  Survivor's include 3 daughters, Teresa Shannon and Mrs. Jack (Darlene) 
  Kuehl, both of Clinton and Mrs. James (Patricia) Judge of De Witt.; four 
  sons, Edward and Michael of Clinton, Richard of Amarillo, Texas and John 
  of Mt. Joy,  Pa.: 14  grandchildren and  two sisters,  Mrs. Bernadette  
  Connole of  Charlotte and  Mrs. Delbert  J. (Marcello)  Regenwether of  
  Milwaukee, Wis.  She was  preceded in  death by  her husband,  one son  
  Robert, one daughter and one brother.
  
  Clinton Herald
  April 4, 1974 [Date doesn't agree with text as she died April 1.]
  Retyped by Lyman Morrison, 1994. 
  
  
  Note; the daughter Theresa died in July 1976.