Mary Esterh DONAHOE

DONAHOE, HOOVER, VARNER

Posted By: Sharon R. Becker (email)
Date: 11/21/2008 at 15:16:48

The Mount Ayr Record-News, 1933

OBITUARY - MARY ESTHER DONAHOE.

Mary Esther DONAHOE, the little daughter of Orville and Mary DONAHOE, of Delphos, Iowa, was born in Illinois on October 1st, 1928, and passed away at sunrise on September 17, 1933, at the St. Joseph hispital (sic) at Centerville, Iowa, following an operation of the previous week. She was four years, 11 months and 17 days of age.

She leaves to mourn her loss, her parents, two sisters, Rhoda and Joan; one brother, Joe; her grandmother, Mrs. Lizzie DONAHOE; and many sorrowing relatives.

"I take these little lambs," said He,
"And lay them in my breast;
Protection they shall find in Me,
In Me be ever blest."

The funeral services, conducted by Rev. W. Harold SMITH, pastor of the Mount Ayr Christian church, were held Monday, September 18, 1933, at the Rhoades Funeral Home and interment took place in Rose Hill cemetery.

Card of Thanks.

We wish to express our heart-felt thanks to our neighbors and friends for their kindess and many expressions of sympathy at the time of the illness and death of our loved one.--Mr. and Mrs. J. O. DONAHOE, Rhoda, Joan and Joe, Mrs. L. M. DONAHOE and GRACE, the HOOVERS and VARNERS.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, 2008