Daughter of Carrie Lee and John Wesley Birney, married Jesse Thompson McGonagle, three children
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Services set Friday for Mrs. Ada McGonagle
Funeral services for Ada B. McGonagle, an early settler of the Powell Flat, will be Friday, March 12 at 2 p.m. at the First Methodist church in Powell with Rev. Jarrell Tharp officiating.
Mrs. McGonagle died March 3 at the Powell Nursing Home of an apparent heart attack. She was 82.
She was born Dec. 24, 1893, on a farm near Cozad, Nebr., the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Wesley Birney. She received her schooling in a one-room school house near her home. When she was 16, her father died and she and her mother remained on the farm.
She married Jesse Thompson McGonagle Dec. 24, 1913. The couple lived with her mother until 1916 when they moved in a emigrant car to the Powell Flat. They moved to the Riverside community in 1937 where they lived until his death in 1970. She remained on the farm until 1971 when she moved into the Rocky Mountain Manor. In September 1975, she moved into the Powell Nursing Home.
She was active in the Methodist Church, Rebekah Lodge and Farm Bureau. Survivors include two daughters, 13 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.
Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery.
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Services set Friday for Mrs. Ada McGonagle
Funeral services for Ada B. McGonagle, an early settler of the Powell Flat, will be Friday, March 12 at 2 p.m. at the First Methodist church in Powell with Rev. Jarrell Tharp officiating.
Mrs. McGonagle died March 3 at the Powell Nursing Home of an apparent heart attack. She was 82.
She was born Dec. 24, 1893, on a farm near Cozad, Nebr., the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Wesley Birney. She received her schooling in a one-room school house near her home. When she was 16, her father died and she and her mother remained on the farm.
She married Jesse Thompson McGonagle Dec. 24, 1913. The couple lived with her mother until 1916 when they moved in a emigrant car to the Powell Flat. They moved to the Riverside community in 1937 where they lived until his death in 1970. She remained on the farm until 1971 when she moved into the Rocky Mountain Manor. In September 1975, she moved into the Powell Nursing Home.
She was active in the Methodist Church, Rebekah Lodge and Farm Bureau. Survivors include two daughters, 13 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.
Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery.
Daughter of Carrie Lee and John Wesley Birney, married Jesse Thompson McGonagle, three children
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Services set Friday for Mrs. Ada McGonagle
Funeral services for Ada B. McGonagle, an early settler of the Powell Flat, will be Friday, March 12 at 2 p.m. at the First Methodist church in Powell with Rev. Jarrell Tharp officiating.
Mrs. McGonagle died March 3 at the Powell Nursing Home of an apparent heart attack. She was 82.
She was born Dec. 24, 1893, on a farm near Cozad, Nebr., the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Wesley Birney. She received her schooling in a one-room school house near her home. When she was 16, her father died and she and her mother remained on the farm.
She married Jesse Thompson McGonagle Dec. 24, 1913. The couple lived with her mother until 1916 when they moved in a emigrant car to the Powell Flat. They moved to the Riverside community in 1937 where they lived until his death in 1970. She remained on the farm until 1971 when she moved into the Rocky Mountain Manor. In September 1975, she moved into the Powell Nursing Home.
She was active in the Methodist Church, Rebekah Lodge and Farm Bureau. Survivors include two daughters, 13 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.
Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery.
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Services set Friday for Mrs. Ada McGonagle
Funeral services for Ada B. McGonagle, an early settler of the Powell Flat, will be Friday, March 12 at 2 p.m. at the First Methodist church in Powell with Rev. Jarrell Tharp officiating.
Mrs. McGonagle died March 3 at the Powell Nursing Home of an apparent heart attack. She was 82.
She was born Dec. 24, 1893, on a farm near Cozad, Nebr., the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Wesley Birney. She received her schooling in a one-room school house near her home. When she was 16, her father died and she and her mother remained on the farm.
She married Jesse Thompson McGonagle Dec. 24, 1913. The couple lived with her mother until 1916 when they moved in a emigrant car to the Powell Flat. They moved to the Riverside community in 1937 where they lived until his death in 1970. She remained on the farm until 1971 when she moved into the Rocky Mountain Manor. In September 1975, she moved into the Powell Nursing Home.
She was active in the Methodist Church, Rebekah Lodge and Farm Bureau. Survivors include two daughters, 13 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.
Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery.
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