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MARGARET CROTTY
[People’s Press, 13 December 1898]
We regret to have to chronicle in our present issue the demise of Mrs. P Crotty, of Clark Hill, which took place on the 1 st. inst., in her 57 th year. Mrs. Crotty was married at the age of seventeen and leaves her husband and 11 children to mourn the loss of a devoted wife and a fond mother, whose life’s work had been devoted to their service. She was indeed, the ideal of a noble Christian woman, and was highly esteemed and respected by all who shared the pleasure of her acquaintance. There was a profusion of flowers presented by friends and relatives, including some beautiful pieces sent by Mr. Smith and family of Buffalo, who recently purchased the Clark Hill property. The funeral obsequies were performed on the morning of the 5 th of December, the following gentlemen acting as pallbearers :– Roderick Cameron, James Quillinan, George Steele, Patrick McGrail, Chas. Inglis and M. Casey. At 9:45 the remains, escorted by a large number of friends and relatives, were borne from the residence to the Church where our Lady of Peace, at Falls View, where High Mass was celebrated by Rev. Father Dionysius Best of the Carmelite Monastery, who spoke in a most feeling and sympathetic manner of the virtues and strong faith of the deceased. Mrs. Crotty leaves besides her husband eleven children, viz :– John and Henry, of Parkersburg, West, Va., Michael, of Manington, West, Va., Joseph, of Niagara Falls, N. Y. May, of Washington, D. C. ; Mrs. Lynch, of Port Robinson, Ont. ; Ms. Mahaney, of Allegbany, Pa.
Annie, of Buffalo, N. Y., Maggie, Tessie and Beatrice at home. The TRIBUNE desires to add its heartfelt sympathy to that of the general public for the sorrowing relatives.
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