REGINA MAHONEY

Regina E. Mahoney, 77, of Waukon, died Wednesday, June 21, 2000, at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon following a brief illness. Funeral services were held June 24, 2000, at St. John’s Baptist West Ridge Catholic Church in rural Waukon, under the direction of Fr. Vincent Simon. Burial was in the church cemetery.
Regina Ethel Mahoney was born November 29, 1922, on the Union Prairie Township, rural Waukon farm of her parents, Michael and Julia (Duffy) Mellick. She was baptized and confirmed at St. John’s Baptist West Ridge Catholic Church and attended Union Prairie #2 rural school. Following school she did housekeeping for area families and helped take care of her mother. On November 26, 1940, she married Edward M. Mahoney at the West Ridge Church. She and Ed farmed and raised their family together in Union Prairie Township until his death on June 14, 1983. Regina also worked as a nurse’s aid for many years, first at Northgate Care Center in Waukon and later at Oneota Care Facility in Decorah. She was a devoted member of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in recent years.
Regina enjoyed raising a big garden and took pride in keeping her home neat and comfortably inviting to family members and friends who liked to stop in for her breads, jams and canned goods. She particularly enjoyed going to family events and celebrations.
Regina is preceded in death by her parents; husband, Edward; four sisters, Margaret Howes, Rita Nierling, Mary Ryan and Pearl Weber; and four brothers, Donald, Frank, Leonard and Leo. Survivors include four sons, Michael, Patrick and Lyle (Marilyn), all of Waukon and John of Madison, WI; two daughters, Mary Jean (Larry) Svendsen and Bernadine (Tom) Gander, both of Ossian; fifteen grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and three sisters, Rosella Nierling, Cedar Rapids, and Loretta Collins and Marcella (Milbourn) Johnson, both of Waukon.
Casketbearers were Don, Dan, and Jerry Nierling, Maynard Johnson, Lennie Mellick, D.M. Ryan, Michael Collins and Dennis Bakken.
Martin Funeral Home of Waukon assisted the family.