M Theresa Shannon
                                            
  Miss M. Theresa Shannon, 42, 1809 8th Avenue South, died Friday at Mercy 
  Hospital. Mass of the Redemption will be  at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Sacred  
  Heart Catholic church  with Rev. E.  J. Weeg  officiating. A Christian  
  burial will follow in St. Mary's Cemetery.
  
  Friends may call from  2 to 9  p.m. Monday at Schmitz  Funeral Home. A  
  Sacred Heart  parish rosary  will be  held at  7:30p.m. Monday  at the  
  funeral home. A  prayer service  will be at  9:30 a.m.  Tuesday at the  
  funeral home.
  
  Miss Shannon was  born August  14, 1933  in De  Witt, the  daughter of  
  Leonard and Rosemary Costello Shannon. She was a bookkeeper at Walgreen 
  Drug Center in Clinton for 23 years,  and was a member of Sacred Heart  
  Catholic church and the Altar and Rosary Society.
  
  Surviving are four  brothers; Edward and  Michael of  Clinton, John of  
  Mount Joy, Pa. and Richard of Indonesia;  and two sister, Mrs. Darlene 
  Kuehl of Clinton and Mrs. Patricia Judge of De Witt.
  
  She was preceded in death by her parents, one brother and sister.
  
  Clinton Herald
  July 17, 1976
  
                             Robert J. Shannon
                                            
  Word has been received by Mrs. Leonard Shannon, 1809 8th Avenue South of 
  the death of her son, Specialist 4, Robert J. Shannon 20, who was killed 
  Thursday in Vietnam in an enemy attack.
  
  Funeral services are pending at the Snyder Schmitz Funeral Home. He was 
  born July 13, 1949 in Clinton, the son of Leonard and Rosemary Costello 
  Shannon. He was a 1968 graduate of Clinton High School, and was employed 
  at DuPont  before entering  the service  July 7,  1969. He  arrived in  
  Vietnam December  31,  1969  and  was  an  artilleryman  with  the 2nd  
  Battalion, 501st Infantry.
  Survivors include his  mother; three  sisters, Theresa,  and Mrs. Jack  
  (Darlene) Kuehl, both of Clinton, and Mrs. James (Patricia) Judge of De 
  Witt; four brothers, Richard of Denver, Colo.,  Michael of De Witt and 
  John and Edward, both of Clinton.
  Clinton Herald
  May 4, 1970

		Two Iowas Killed in Viet

Two more  Iowans have been  killed in fighting in Vietnam.   They were
Spec. 5 Paul Kosanke,  21, of Eldora and  Spec. 4 Robert J. Shannon of
Clinton.

Specialist Shannon, 20, was a 1968 graduate of Clinton High School. He
was  drafted in July,  1969, and was sent  to Vietnam last December. He
was killed Thursday.

Specialist Shannon is  survived by his  mother, Mrs. Rosemary Shannon;
four  brothers,  Edward and John   of Clinton, Michael   of DeWitt and
Richard of Denver, Colo; and three sisters, Theresa at home, Mrs. Jack
Kuehl of Clinton and Mrs. James Judge of DeWitt.
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Newspaper clipping received from Rita Keller, 1999.
May 5  paper (perhaps the Des Moines Register).
April 30 pencilled in as death date.