DIED
COURTNEY At her residence 286 Mt Pleasant Avenue, Mrs. Mary Courtney, aged 82 years, Saturday, Jan 16 at 7:30 a.m. Funeral will be at her residence 8:30 a.m. Monday, Jan 18. Services at St. Anthony's Church at 9 a.m. Interment at Monastery. Please omit flowers.
Dubuque Telegraph Herald Dubuque, Iowa Jan 16, 1909

PIONEER WOMAN DEAD
MRS. MARY COURTNEY PASSES TO HER REWARD.
WIDOW OF LATE M. (error) COURTNEY AN EARLY SETTLER.
Mrs. Mary Courtney, widow of the late Michael (error) Courtney, and one of Dubuque's earliest settlers, died Saturday morning at 7:30 o'clock at the family residence, 286 Mt. Pleasant Avenue, aged 82 years.
The deceased, whose maiden name was Mary Ann Doyle, was born September 7, 1827, at Boston, Mass., where she received her early education, her teacher being Sister Mary Agnes, one of the sisters who founded St. Clara College at Minaihawa (sp?). At the age of twelve years she moved to St. Louis and later to Davenport, IA, where she married Edward Courtney in September, 1843, Rev. Father Palmorges officiating at the ceremony. In 1845 she came to Dubuque with her husband and had lived in the vicinity ever since. In 1861 she moved with her husband to a farm at Julien where she lived until 1887, when she returned to Dubuque, where her declining years were spent. Her husband died in 1880.
Mrs. Courtney was the mother of twelve children, ten of whom, six sons and four daughters, survive her. The surviving children, all of whom were at their mother's bedside when the final summons came, are: George, of Dubuque; Dan, of Vernon Township; Edward, of Muncy, Ind; John B. of St. Louis; Wm T., of Waterloo; Robert E., of Duluth, Minn.; Mrs. Ellen Germain, of Davenport; Mrs. F. Nevins, Mrs. Joe Clardy, and Miss Jane Courtney, all of this city.
Mrs. Courtney was a lifelong member of the Catholic Church and passed away fortified with its rites.
The funeral will be held Monday morning at 8:30 o'clock to St. Anthony's Church, and the burial will be made at the Monastery.
Dubuque Times Journal Dubuque, IA Jan 16, 1909