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Show Catholic Mother To Be Feted At Women's Meet Mrs. W. H. McDougall, 659-llth East, named Catholic Mother of 1956, will be honored Friday and Saturday in Provo, at the annual convention of the Diocesan Council Coun-cil of Catholic Women. Mrs. McDougall, a native of New York, came west with her husband, and 47 years ago come to Salt Lake. She has been active in the Woman's League and was a charter member of the group when it was organized in 1916. She has taken a prominent part in Judge Memorial School affairs and also as an active member of the Cathedral of the Madeleine's Altar Society when she was a member of that parish. For more than 30 years she has been sacristan in Our Lady of Lourdes Parish. The "Pro Ecclesia et Pontifce" was bestowed on Mrs. McDougall by Pope Pius XII as an award in 1949 in recognition of her efforts in behalf of her parish and family-Mr. and MJrs. McDougall's children chil-dren are graduates of Judge. Memorial School, and their son, the Rev. William H. McDougall, who is at present assistant pastor of the Cathedral of Madeleine, was a former newspaper man and foreign correspondent during the war. Following his return he has written several books, and since his return from the war he entered ent-ered the priesthood. The daugh- ters include Miss Jean McDougall, a vice president of Continental Bank and Trust, and Mrs. Gertrude Ger-trude Carrico, who died in 1952 in Richland, Wash. The McDougall's Mc-Dougall's have three grandchildren grandchil-dren in Washington. |