Posted on: PaloAlto County Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ia/PaloAltoObits/471 Surname: McCormick, Higgins ------------------------- Emmetsburg Democrat Emmetsburg, Palo Alto, Iowa 29 Jan 1913 Mrs. John McCormick Dead Funeral Services held at Assumption Church Last Sunday Mrs. John McCormick, Sr., passed away last Friday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J.D. Higgins, of Great Oak township where she had been stopping since July. She had suffered a great deal from rheumatism for four years. Three months ago she became afflicted with gangrene of he foot. She was given all the care and medical assistance that medical care could provide, but her years and her physical condition were against her. After days and weeks of patient suffering, death finally came to relieve her. The funeral was held Sunday. Services were conducted at Assumption church immediately after high mass, Very Rev. P.F. Farrelly paying a high tribute to her worth as a Christian lady. The interment was in St. John's cemetery. The pall bearers were Henry Selle, Daniel O'Brien, J.K. Martin, J.J. Higgins, T.H. Conlon and Edward Warren. Ellen Gannon was born in the county of Roscommon, Ireland in 1838. She came to the United States in 1850, landing in New York. She was married to John McCormick at Cannandagus, that state, November 3, 1862. Mr. and Mrs. McCormick came to Blackhawk county, Iowa, October 20, 1866. They lived on a farm. In 1887 they became residents of Nevada township, this county. They owned a fine farm home, which subsequently became the property of their son, J.J. McCormick. They moved to Emmetsburg in 1899 to spend the remaining years of their lives in retirement. Mr. McCormick died April 3, 1908. Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. McCormick. Only two sons and one daughter are living. The sons are Frank and John J., both well known to our readers. The daughter is Mrs. J.D. Higgins of Great Oak township. After the death of her husband Mrs. McCormick's health was rather poor. She spent considerable of her time with her sons and daughter, in whose welfare she always took a great interest. Our community knew and revered Mrs. McCormick as one of its most exemplary, conscientious and dutiful mothers. To give to her husband, her sons, and her daughters the love, attention and assistance that the anxious, solicitious Christian heart can suggest; to perform humbly, thoughtfully and helpfully the many obligations that the orderly, law-loving neighborhood most needs; to render to her God the obedience and devotion that confidence in the wisdom of his law inspires-these were the well directed, earnest aims of her long and active career. She was mild and pleasing of manner and she was gentle and as confiding as a child. The members of her happy household had only the most affectionate regard for her and the public entertained for her the enduring respect which only years of association, amid exacting trials, can develop and foster. A change of location did not change the attitude of the public esteem in which she was held. The people of Emmetsburg found her the same unpretentious, exemplary, charitably disposed woman that she was while she was a resident of Nevada township and of Blackhawk county. Financial success did not make her indifferent ragarding the interests or the opportunities of others or heedless of the seriousness of her religious obligations. She kept constantly in mind the duties which the possession of means and superior advantages imposes. She suffered much from physical afflictions during the closing years of her life but she looked upon the ills of the flesh so often incident to old age as trials which the many of the most favored of God's followers must undergo before passing into the possession of the unending joys in store for those who love him and serve him while on earth. General and sincere sympathy is extended to the surviving sons and daughter in their sorrow. Link: Palo Alto County, Iowa USGenWeb Project URL: <http://www.rootsweb.com/~iapaloal/paloalto.htm>