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MAC DONALD, Angus OBITUARY
Funeral services and burial were held in Grand Rapids for Angus R. MacDonald, 81, the brother of Betty Zagorski, Rt. 2 Washburn, who died there on July 5.
Mr. MacDonald was a member of St. Anthony's Church, Grand Rapids, and the Catholic Order of Foresters. He was a retired employee of the Imperial Furniture co.
Surviving are his wife, Mildred; one son, James, of Grand Rapids; two daughters, Mrs. Jack (Mary Ellen) Howard, Perrysburg, OH; Christine MacDonald, Wyoming, Mich.; four grandchildren; and his sister, Mrs. Zagorski, Washburn.
Iron River Pioneer July 18, 1985
JOHN L. MAC RAE OBITUARY
Death Came as a Geat Surprise and Shock to the Community --Had Not Been Feeling Well
Iron River and surrounding district was severely shocked last Saturday at about the noon hour, when it was learned that John Livingstone MacRae, head of the MacRae Drug company, had passed from this life.
Mr. MacRae had not been well for several weeks, but nevertheless was able to look after his business affairs and was found daily in his drug store attending to the wants of that firm's customers. On Saturday morning he did not feel well enough to go to the store and remained in bed. His wife had been in and out of his bedroom during the morning hours, and had notice that her husband's sleep was not quite natural, for at times he would cough. However, she thought that he would be all right when he got rested and did not disturb him. At about 11:30 o'clock, she concluded to awaken him and learn if he did not want to get up and have dinner. It was then she learned that he was either dead or in an unconscious condition, for she could not arouse him. Dr. Tarter was called and employed artificial respiration but to no avail. The spirit had fled. His death was due to a hemorrhage of the stomach.
John Livingston MacRae was born at Saginaw, Mich., on Feb. 3, 1874, and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter MacRae. He was raised at Escanaba, Mich., and after finishing his high school education went to Northwestern University at Chicago, where he took up the study of pharmacy, and after his graduation he married Miss Gertrude Blanche Morrison in Chicago. To this union was born four children, Peter Leslie, Betty (now Mrs. Wallace McIver), Kenneth, who died overseas with the American forces during the late war, and John L., Jr. who has been associated with his father in business here.
To mourn his untimely death he leaves, besides his widow and the surviving children named above, an aged mother, one brother, Dr. M. F. MacRae, of Milwaukee, and one sister, Mrs. C. Webb Sadler, of Sandusky, Ohio. The aged mother, who is blind, resides with her son in Milwaukee, and upon learning of her son's death expressed the natural hope that she, and not her son, had been called to the eternal life.
Funeral services were held at the Congregational Church Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock, Rev. Thomas B. Lyter, pastor of the Washington Park Presbyterian Church, at Milwaukee, officiating. Rev. Lyter is an oldtime and intimate friend of the family. Rev. Arthur G. Young, pastor of the Congregational Church, assisted in the service.
It was the expressed wish of the deceased that when he was called, he should be laid at rest in the family lot beside his son, Kenneth, at the Washburn cemetery, and this wish was complied with.
The relatives from away who attended the funeral were: Dr. M.F. MacRae, brother, of Milwaukee; Peter Leslie, son, of Milwaukee: Mrs. Wallace McIver, daughter, of Milwaukee; and Mrs. C. Webb Sadler, sister, of Sandusky, Ohio.
In the death of Mr. MacRae many people in and around Iron River feel a keen personal loss. Bright, talented, pleasing in personality, yet the dominant trait in his character which will always be remembered was his keen sympathy for anyone and everyone who was in trouble. Being in the drug business one would naturally expect that he would get accustomed to dealing with the ills of human kind and would learn to expect that sickness and distress was but the natural order and accept that as the natural thing, but John MacRae never did. His was a genuine and deep concern for anyone in distress and his thoughts were always and foremost concerned with the misfortunes of others. If unselfishness is the cardinal virtue, he possessed it in an unusual degree.
To each and every member of the stricken family, the unbounded sympathy of the entire community goes out.
The Iron River Pioneer Thursday, December 24, 1925
MC CLARNON, DALE OBITUARY
Dale McClarnon, 83, of Ashland, formerly of Benoit, Iron River, and Ino, died Jan. 7, 1993, at his residence.
He was born May 7, 1909, in Knox, N.D., the son of George [Washington McClarnon]and Ida [Moore] McClarnon. He moved to the Benoit area at age 13 where he lived about 20 years. He was manager of the Ino Store for about six years. He was owner-operator of Mac's Grocery in Iron River for 20 years, retiring in 1975. Mr. McClarnon than moved back to Benoit for about five years, before moving to Ashland in December,1992.
He married Vera Von Ende in Cloquet, Minn. She died on July 18, 1983.
He is survived by two brothers, James R. McClarnon, Ashland, and Kenneth T. (Jean) McClarnon, Sun Prairie; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Besides his wife, he was preceded in death by his parents, a brother, Thomas, and three sisters, Bernice, Doris, and Georgie.
Funeral services will be held Monday at 11 a.m. at the Roberts Funeral Home in Ashland. Rev. Don Nickolson will officiate. Spring burial will take place in the Iron River City Cemetery.
Visitation will be Sunday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Roberts Funeral Home, and one hour prior to the service Monday at the funeral home.
The Ashland Daily Press Saturday, January 9, 1993
McCLOUD, Joseph
Posted By:Donna Bell Cross
Date: Friday, 12 November 1999, at 12:32:00 p.m.
DEATH OF JOSEPH McCLOUD. Judge Joseph McCloud died at the home of B.A. Brown Wednesday night after an illness of three weeks. Judge McCloud has made Bass island his home for a number of years. In his younger days he was very prominent at Washington [DC?] and in this section of the country for many years. He was one of the earliest settlers in Northern Wisconsin. During his early days here the Judge was in the hardware business. The Washburn Times in speaking of Judge McCloud in it's issue of November 14th, says: "Perhaps very few people know who Judge McCoud is, whose life is slowly ebbing away. Thirty-five years ago he was one of the most prominent men in Northern Wisconsin, and was one of the first district attorneys of LaPointe county. LaPointe county was then pretty much everything in Northern Wisconsin. Later he held other county offices and was for a long time county judge. Now he is a very old man, and has for many years lived alone on Bass islnd, near Bayfield, holding the title, it is said, for certain property holders, who have furnished him with provisions about once a week. Here the old man lives a hermit life, shut off from the outside world, and all alone on the little island. Very few boats stop over at Bass island. But occasionally a private yacht or sail boat goes to the place. Two or three times the writer has visited the place and met the venerable old Judge. He is a feeble old man, and has long been in his second childhood. His sight is almost gone, yet he has managed to do his own cooking and take care of his own house. The old man has an organ and a cat - his only companions. Upon the approach of visitors the cat takes to the woods, and to all appearances is almost wild, except to the caresses of the feeble old man. The Judge imagines he is quite a composer, and delights to play original selections on the dilapidated old organ for his friends or visitors. The poor old man is in his dotage and when death comes to him it will no doubt be a welcome visitor. He is one of last of the old men, who in the early days was prominent in the affairs of Northern Wisconsin."
[Bayfield County Press Saturday, Dec. 1, 1900]
LOUIS McCUTCHEON
Louis R. McCutcheon, 72, of 322 Superior Ave., Washburn, died Tuesday at Bayfield County Memorial Hospital. He was born Sept. 11, 1912 in Washburn, the son of Charles and Alice McCutcheon. He farmed for many years in the Cornucopia-Bayfield area, and in the Rockford, Ill. area for 15 years. He was an avid fisherman.
Survivors include; four sisters, Myrtle Herbert of Manitowoc and Esther Hebert, Frances (Dolly) Zifko and Mrs. Clarence (Ann) Eliason, all of Washburn; two brothers, George McCutcheon of Washburn and Frank McCutcheon of the Town of Bayfiled; and many nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be Friday at 2 p.m. at the Apostle Islands Baptist Church, Ashland, with Pastor Bradley Berglund officiating. Burial will be at Woodland Cemetery, Washburn. Visiation will be Thursday from 7-9 p.m. at the Bratley Funeral Home, Washburn.
The Iron River Pioneer July 25, 1985
RUTH E. (CASON) McCUTCHEON OBITUARY
Ruth E. McCutcheon, 56, of Bayfield Township, died on May 1 [1985] at her residence. She was born on Feb. 15, 1929, in Brainerd, Minn., the daughter of Ronald and Myrtle Cason. She married Frank McCutcheon on Aug. 17, 1946, in Washburn. She and her husband farmed on their North Star Ranch for 39 years. She was a member of the Apostle Island Baptist Church in Ashland, and was secretary for the Apostle Island Christian School in Ashland.
She is survived by her husband, Frank; two daughters, Mrs. Roger (Alice) Kunsman, Bloomer, Wis.. and Mrs. Martin (Pamela_) Poweres, Bay City, Oregon; five sons, Frank, Jr. Elma Wash.; Donald, Bayfield Township; Guy, Bark Point, Wis.; Bruce, Menominee, and Rodney, Bayfield Township; and 12 grandchildren. Also surviving are her mother, Mrs. Myrtle Cason, Tacoma, Wash.; three sisters, Mrs. Ella May Harkins, Arvada, Colo.; Mrs. Ed (Betty) Fulop, Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, and Mrs. Dean (June) Casten, Chickasha, Okla.; one brother Robert Cason, Virginia Beach, Va., and nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her father and one niece.
Funeral services were held on Monday at 2 p.m. at the Apostle Island Baptist Church, 623 2nd Avenue East in Ashland, with Pastor Bradley Berglund officiating. Burial will be in Woodland Cemetery, Washburn. There was visitation on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Bratley Funeral Home in Washburn and one hour prior to the time of service at the church on Monday.
The Iron River Pioneer May 9, 1985
W.F. MC ELDOWNEY OBITUARY
(The Nonpareil Journal, West Salem, Wisconsin.)
Funeral rites were held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Johnson funeral home and with Masonic services at 2 p.m. from the Presbyterian church for William Francis McEldowney, 73, who passed away suddenly last Thursday [Dec. 28, 1939] at his home.
A lifelong resident of this community, Mr. McEldowney was born June 24th, 1866, to Andrew and Rachael McEldowney. Many years prior to this date his grandfather, Andrew McEldowney, Sr., had come to LaCrosse county from Crawford county, Pa., and had taken a homestead in the town of Hamilton. It was upon this homestead that Mr. McEldowney was born and here that he spent many years of his active life. Here also he was educated in the common schools. At the age of nine he became a member of the Presbyterian curch at Neshonoc, having earlier been baptised in the same church. One could not write a history of the church here and omit the name which he bore, and he was destined to carry forward that tradition in his own way throughout his lifetime.
On the 6th of June, 1889, Mr. McEldowney was married to Eva Lois Pettingill, daughter of John A. and Ann Eliza Pettingill, founders of Iron River, Wis., the wedding being the first in that village. The couple returned to take up their residence on the homestead farm near West Salem and here and at their home in the village they lived for the next quarter of a century. To this union four children were born; Gladys (Mrs. Angas Johnson), Rachael, (Mrs. P. L. Gullickson), James George, and Evelyn (Mrs. A. E. Wedin), who, together with the wife, eight grandchildren, four nephews and one niece survive him.
During the War the McEldowneys closed their West Salem home and returned to the farm where they remained for the next seven years. After his parents' permanent retirement to the village in 1924, James McEldowney for a time took over the farm.
A former county commissioner and village board member, Mr. McEldowney was also associated with the West Salem canning company. An ardent sportsman, he had missed not a single open season at Iron River in 45 years. During 30 years of that period he hunted with his wife's uncle, Mr. Josia Pettingill, and on many an occasion Mrs. McEldowney accompanied him. On this last hunting trip to Iron River in November he showed his usual energy and enjoyment of the sport, but on his return home remarked that the trip would be his last. In this comment and in others made to family and friends he revealed a sense of his approaching death.
A devoted father and grandfather, he felt for his friends and the little children of his neighborhood the same love he showed his own family. Only the Sunday before his death he was present at the baptism of his beloved little granddaughter, Sally Ann Wedin.
The oldest living Mason in West Salem lodge in number of years membership, Mr. McEldwoney attended the installation services held the very night before his death, when he and his wife were accorded a place of honor at the head of the table.
On last June 6th, Mr. and Mrs. McEldowney celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary. It was an occasion of crowning joy and consumate happiness for these gentle and loveable people after the long years to receive the felicitations and pledges of love and honor from hundreds of relatives and friends a good Providence had given to walk with them down the years.
Mr. McEldowney slipped away quietly, suddenly into the larger life at 12:30 o'clock noon, Thursday, December 28, having lived completely, a friend of man, of nature, and of nature's God.
THE IRON RIVER PIONEER, BAYFIELD COUNTY, WISCONSIN Thursday, January 18, 1940
MC ELROY, FRANCIS WILL PROBATE NOTICE
Bayfield County Court:
In Probate.
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Jan. 3d, A.D. 1882
In the matter of the last will and testament of Francis McElroy, deceased, late of the County of Bayfield.
WHEREAS, an instrument in writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Francis McElroy, deceased, late of the County of Bayfield, has been filed in this office; and whereas application has been made by J.J. Miles, praying that the same be proved and admitted to probate, according to the laws of this state, and that letters testementary be granted thereon according to law:
It is ordered that said application be heard before me at the probate office in the town of Bayfield, in said county on the 7th day of February, A.D. 1882, at 10 o'clock a.m.
And it is further ordered that notice of said application and hearing be given by publishing a copy of this order in the BAYFIELD PRESS, a weekly newspaper printed in said town of Bayfield, in said county, for three successive weeks, prior to the time of such a hearing.
By the Court,
Elisha Pike, County Judge
The Bayfield County Press, Saturday, January 14, 1882
MC KINNEY, Mildred E. (Svenson) OBITUARY
Mildred E. McKinney, 75, a resident of Cable and a former Ashland resident, died Monday at St. Luke's Medical Center in Phoenix, Ariz.
She was born Jan. 8, 1910 in Morris, Ill., and came to the Cable area with her parents in 1914. She attended Leonard School and Cable High School and graduated from Northland Academy in 1927.
She served her teacher's training in Hayward and taught from 1929 to 1932 at Spider Lake School and Blair School.
She was married June 9, 1931 to Clayton McKinney of Hayward. They opened their first pharmacy in Cable in 1932 and operated it until 1943. They moved to Ashland in 1943, where they owned and operated McKinney Drug from 1955 to 1959, then returned to Cable and operated McKinney Drug until their retirement in 1974.
She was an active member of the Cable Congregational-United Church of Christ and secretary of the Women's Fellowship. She was a member of the Cable Women's Club and a past president. She was a member of the Cable Homemakers, the Tuesday Bridge Club and the Lac La Belle Chaper 24, Order of the Eastern Star in Ashland.
She had previously been a member of the Chequamegon Shrine Auxiliary, the Women's Association of the First Presbyterian-Congregational church of Ashland, the Ashland Monday Club, the Ashland Garden Club, DeMolay Mothers and the PTA, and was a Cub Scout leader.
Survivors indlude: three sons, Dr. Clayton McKinney of Madison, Dr. John McKinney of Spooner and William McKinney of Cable; a daughter, Mrs. Jerome (Sharon) Peterson of Tucson, Ariz; 11 grandchildren; and a sister, Mrs. Elmer (Etta) Somerville of Seeley.
She was preceded in death by her husband Clayton, in 1978, and by a brother, Irving Svensen, in 1968.
Funeral services were Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at the Cable Congregational-United Church of Christ with Pastor Lynn Larson and Rev. Joseph Jenkins officiating. Interment will follow at Riverside Cemetery in Seeley.
Visitation was Saturday from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Koerpel Funeral Home, Hayward.
Memorials may be made to the Cable Congregational-United Church of Christ.
The Iron River Pioneer April 4, 1985
Contributed by Donna Bell Cross
MRS. JOHN W. (MARGARET LAVIN) MC LEAN OBITUARY
Mrs. John W. (Margaret Lavin) McLean, 76, of 1900 New York Ave., died Sunday, April 28 [1985] in the local hospital following a lengthy illness. She was born Aug. 12, 1908 in Iron River and was a lifelong resident here. She was a member of St. Michael's Catholic Church, Iron River.
In addition to her husband, John, she is survived by three sons, John Jr., Hoyt Lakes, Minn., and Harry and Ronald, both of Iron River; a daughter, Mrs. John (Beth) Shykess, Superior; 16 grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
The funeral was held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 30th at St. Michael's Catholic Church, with the Rev. Fr. Daniel Dahlberg celebrating a Mass of Christian Burial. Burial was in the family lot in the Iron River Cemetery. The Lenroot-Maetzold Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
The Iron River Pioneer May 2, 1985
MC QUEEN, GIRL OBITUARY
While playing with a 22 calibre rifle Monday, Allen McQueen, the five year old son of Thos. McQueen, living at Roy's Point, shot his 20 months old sister. The shot entered the child's forehead and passed out at the back of the head. At the time of the accident the little victim was sitting in her high chair and her brother was playing with the gun. Playfully taking aim, he fired the shot which proved fatal.
The Bayfield County Press Friday, September 02, 1910
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