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Show OBITTJARY. Died, at the home of her parents at Meaderville. Mary Monahan, aged "8 years, on Tuesday,. Jue3, and ..was buried from the Sacred Heart church on Thursday afternoon. Rev. Father Cornelius O'Rourke, the priest who was drowned near Durango, Colo., , last" week.' was well . known in Butte, iwherehe had preached many times. His . sister. Mrs. Ryan, lives here with her sons. Emmet and-P. V.',-and V.',-and other relatives. Another sister died in Anaconda four years ago. She Sister Bridget, one of the best known sisters in -the-west. She had-lived in Leadville and in other Colorado cities,' and every miner in Colorado and Montana, Mon-tana, it is said., knew her to love her. She was a noble woman. Father O'Rourke came to Bdtte and Anaconda at that time and attended bis sister's funeral. i He was a classmate of Father Callahan Calla-han of the Sacred Heart parish of this city, at St. Mary's college in Kansas. He was known at the leading ecclesiastical ecclesias-tical orator of Colorado. At the time of his death he was stationed at Silver-ton. Silver-ton. Colo. Father Callahan said yesterday yes-terday that Father O'Rourke was a splendid type of a man, courageous, forceful as a speaker, and beloved by all who knew him, and that his untimely un-timely and tragic end was cause of universal sadness. There will be a solemn high mass for him at Sacred Heart church Monday morning at 9 o'clock, and the friends of the dead priest are invited to attend. |
