Obituaries

 

 

Leo McSweeny

(note: Name on honor roll is McSweeney, but gravestone is spelled McSweeny)

source: Fayette County Leader, October 17, 1918, pg. 12

Word comes to us this (Monday) morning of the death of Leo, the son of Mr. and Mrs. J.S. McSweeney, who reside just east of Randalia. He was in military training at Ames and was taken with influenza, which later developed into pneumonia and caused his death in a hospital at Iowa City. He has a brother, James, in the U..S. Aviation Corps. His parents have the sincere sympathy of everyone in their sorrow.
 

 

-transcribed and submitted by Jeanie Belding for Iowa in the Great War