Lillian Elizabeth Kinsella

Catholic rites for LIllian Kinsella

Rosary was held Monday for Lillian Kinsella (92) at 7:30 p.m. in the Peet Mortuary Chapel with Mass being held in St. Leo's Catholic Church at 10:00 a.m. October 12. Rev. Terence McGovern officiated.

Mrs. Henry Wasserburger Sr., organist, accompanied Mrs. Norma Willson as she sang "In The Garden" and "Beyond The Sunset." Casket bearers were Ben Wolfe, Harry Brown, Milton Himes, George Collins, Malcolm Hammer and Howard Freeman. Burial was in the Lusk Cemetery.

Lillian E. Kinsella was born May 6, 1884, at Shoreham, Vt., the daughter of Ames and Anna Dozais Wilson. She died Oct. 9 at Custer, S. D. Her family lived in Vermont until the death of her mother, and Lillian went to live with her grandmother in Iowa. There she met and married Edward Fleming. They were the parents of four children. One daughter died in infancy. The family moved to Nebraska where they lived several years.

Later she married Joseph Kinsella and made her home in Omaha. They moved to Lusk in 1959 where they lived until Mr. Kinsella's death in 1972. Shortly thereafter she gave up her home, living with her children.

Survivors include two sons, Eddie of Kalispell, Mont. and Elmer of Lusk; a daughter Edna Taylor of Hot Springs, S. D.; a brother, Frank Wilson of Middlebury, Vermont; 6 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; 4 great-great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

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