O’Rourke, Ellen. On Friday March 14 at 7 30 (?) a.m. Ellen O’Rourke, beloved wife of Patrick O’Rourke, in her 72d year.
Funeral from her late residence, 274 Braddock Avenue, East Pittsburgh, on Tuesday, March 18 at 130 p m (?) Requiem high mass at St. Coleman’s Roman Catholic Church, Turtle Creek at 2 a m (?) Friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend. Interment in Braddock Catholic Cemetery.
This is the obituary of my great grandmother Ellen O’Rourke. The copy from the paper is difficult to read and it looks like what should have been PM looks like AM. I can not imagine anyone being buried in the middle of the early morning.
I was sad when I found it because it does not mention her birthplace (Limerick, Ireland), her parents (Patrick Mortel and ??? her mother), or her children. Many of her children, Mary, William and Gertrude, were still living at home with her.
Was the cost of the obituary a factor in omitting this information?
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