Posted on: PaloAlto County Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ia/PaloAltoObits/10630 Surname: Toole, O'Toole, Dealy, Berry ------------------------- Emmetsburg Democrat Emmetsburg, Palo Alto, Iowa Wednesday, Oct 16, 1912 MRS. CATHERINE O'TOOLE Her Death Occurred at the Home of Her Daughter, Mrs. J.F. Dealy, Friday Evening. Last week brief mention was made of the serious illness of Mrs. Catherine O'Toole. She had been about as usual and though advanced in years, was apparently quite rugged. Monday evening of last week she was stricken with paralysis while about to sit down to the supper table. She never regained consciousness. She lingered until Friday evening when she passed away. The funeral was held Monday morning. Services were conducted at St. Thomas church, Father McNerney saying a requiem high mass. The burial was in St. John's cemetery. The pall bearers were T.J. Duffy, M.F. Kerwick, Thomas O'Connor, J.P. Crowley, M Hester, and E.J. Higgins. Catherine Toole was born in Louisburg, in the county of Mayo, Ireland, November 1, 1826. She came to America at about the age of 17 and a year later was married in Pennsylvania to Patrick O'Toole. Mr. and Mrs. O'Toole were residents of Allamakee county, this state, for some time. Mr. O'Toole died a number of years ago. Mrs. O'Toole spent the greater part of the past forty years in Humboldt and Palo Alto counties. During the past eleven years she lived with her daughter, Mrs. J.F. Dealy, of this city and her son, Dr. C.S. O'Toole, of Vienna, South Dakota. She arrived in this city from Vienna a couple of months ago to spend the winter with Mrs. Dealy. Ten children were born to Mr. and Mrs. O'Toole. Six are living. They are Thomas, James and Mrs. S. Berry of North Dakota, Edward F O'Toole of Isabel, South Dakota, and Mrs. Dealy of this place. Mrs. O'Toole enjoyed the privilege of a long, well spent, active, and useful career. She participated for nearly 90 years in the activities and in many of the achievements of the greatest centuries in the world's history. She was one of the pioneer women who toiled zealously and patiently for three score years and ten to make this, the land of her adoption, the abiding place of the advantages, comforts, and other blessings enjoyed by the present generation. Though humble and quiet, she did her part cheerfully and heroically in the great work that has been accomplished. Providence was kind and generous to her in many ways, bestowing upon her the blessings of health and strength, though her declining years brought some of the physical afflictions that the most favored are, at times, called upon to bear. Mrs. O'Toole was pleasant and humorous and she was usually disposed to look upon the bright side of affairs. She was loyal in her friendship. She would cling tenaciously to those in whom she had learned to place confidence. She was a woman of strong religious faith and she was a practical member of the church to which she belonged. What a source of satisfaction and consolation this is to the average mother in her most annoying and trying hours. The death of Mrs. O'Toole will be generally and sincerly mourned by the many who knew her and who had learned to esteem her for her high motives and her praiseworthy deeds. The sympathy of all is extended to the loss of her who was to them the kindest, the most loving and most dutiful, the best of mothers. Link: Palo Alto County, Iowa USGenWeb Project URL: <http://www.rootsweb.com/~iapaloal/paloalto.htm>