LAWRENCE FITZSIMMONS OBITUARY JANUARY 1919 FITZSIMMONS--Lawrence Fitzsimmons, a resident of Platte county twenty-eight years, and father of Mrs. P.J. Schaecher, of Columbus, died at St. Mary's hospital at 8 p.m. Tuesday. He had been in feeble health ten years, the last six of which he spent in the hospital under the care of the Sisters. Mr. Fitzsimmons was born in County Mead, Ireland, October 13, 1830. He came to this country when he was sixteen years old, locating in Illinois. There, in 1856, he married Bridget Rilley. They made their home on a farm in Iowa some years, and then came to Platte county about twenty-eight years ago, buying a farm west of Platte Center. Mrs. Fitzsimmons passed away sixteen years ago, and three years later her husband retired from the farm, moving to Lindsay. He leaves eight daughters and four sons--Mrs. John Donnelly, of Alexis, Ill.; M.G. Fitzsimmons, of Butte, Mont.; Mrs. John McGuire, of Ottumwa, Ia.; Thomas Fitzsimmons, of Des Moines, Ia.; Mrs. P.J. Schaecher, of Columbus; Mrs. John Ratliff, of Hedrick, Ia.; Mrs. J.E. Sweeney, of Prescott, Ariz.; John Fitzsimmons, of Ainsworth, Nebr.; Mrs. H.B. Smith, of Omaha; Will Fitzsimmons, of Ottumwa, Ia.; Mrs. Henry Rogan and Mrs. Maurice Langan, both of Platte Center. Funeral services will be held at St. John's Catholic church in Joliet township this morning at 10 o'clock, with burial in the parish cemetery there. Published in The Columbus Journal January1919

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