Posted on: PaloAlto County Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ia/PaloAltoObits/10627 Surname: Brennan, Murphy, McCullough ------------------------- Emmetsburg Democrat, Friday, October 25, 1940 Death Takes Mrs. Brennan Wednesday Funeral to Be Held on Saturday Morning Assumption Church. Daughter Born Oct. Eighth. Mrs. Lawrence D. Brennan, widely known young matron of this place, died in the Emmetsburg hospital during the supper hour Wednseday evening. Mrs. Brennan, through a caesarean operation, gave birth to a daughter, Mary Helen, on Tuesday, October 8. Since the birth of the daughter serious complcations had set in. Every known medical aid was employed to restore her to her usual good health, but her condition gradually became worse and she passed peacefully away at the time above mentioned. The little daughter is thriving as nicely as can be expected. Funeral services for Mrs. Brennan will be held Saturday morning. At 9:30 o'clock a solemn requiem High Mass will be celebrated in the Assumption church, the pastor, Very Rev. W. F. Mason, officiating. He will be assisted by Rev. M. McNerney as deacon and Rev. Thomas Lawless, sub-deacon. Rev. J. G. Schissel, assistant at Assumption church, will be master of ceremonies. Interment will be at St. John's cemetery. The names of the pall bearers have not as yet been announced. It is expected that the Daughters of America and other organizations will be present in a body. The Foy Funeral Home of Emmetsburg will be in charge of arrangements. Mary Loretta Murphy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Murphy, was born in Illinois in 1907. She was 33 years of age at the time of her passing. She was one of a family of eight children. The family came to Iowa in 1914. Miss Murphy spent her chidhood on the Murphy farm a short distance west of Emmetsburg. She graduated at St. Ellen's Academy in 1924. She then matriculated in the Emmetsburg high school, graduating with the class of 1928. She then entered St. Joseph's Mercy hospital training school for nurses at Mason City. She completed her training in 1931 and served as a private nurse in Mason City for about a year. She then returned to Emmetsburg and accepted a position as general duty nurse in the Emmetsburg hospital. For some time she was acting superintendent of the institution. On August 10, 1938, Miss Murphy was united in marriage to Lawrence D. Brennan, well known chairman of the Palo Alto County Soil Conservation committee. After their marriage they began housekeeping in the lovely new home erected by the groom on his farm seven miles south of Emmetsburg. Mary Helen is the first and only child of the couple. Mrs. Brennan is survived by her sorrowing spouse, the little daughter, Mary Helen, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Murphy of the Ruthven neighborhood, and the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Hollis McCullough, Garner; Mrs. Emmet Murphy, Graettinger; Mrs. Francis Murphy, Emmetsburg; Gertrude, Elizabeth, Philip, George and James, at home.