Viola Josephine (Merjay) Scannell (1898 - 1967)

Born 14 Feb 1898 in Osceola, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States

Ancestors

Wife of George Hugh Scannell — married 23 Oct 1918 in Armstrong, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States

Died 24 Jan 1967 at age 68 in Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United states

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Biography

Obituary: Fond du Lac Commonwealth Reporter, Wed. Jan. 25, 1967, p. 36, c. 1. St. Joseph's Rites Planned for Resident. Mrs. George Scannell Dies at 68; Body to Be in State. Funeral services for Mrs. George H. Scannell, 68, of 200 14th St., who died at 11:18 a.m. Tuesday at St. Agnes Hospital, will be held at 8:45 a.m. Friday at the Uecker-Witt Funeral Home and 9:15 a.m. at St. Joseph's Church, Rt. Rev. Msgr. Henry g. Riordan officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. The former Viola Merjay was born Feb. 14, 1898, in the Town of Osceola, daughter of Henry and Eugenia Krell Merjay. She was married to Mr. Scannell on Oct. 23, 1918 at Our Lady of Angels Church, Armstrong. Mrs. Scannell was a member of St. Joseph‘s Church, Altar and Rosary Society, Daughters of Isabella and Mitchell Community Club. Survivors include her widower; fours sons, Leo and Thomas of the city, Robert, Kewaskum, and James, Ardmore, Okla.; two daughters, Mrs. James Twohig, Armstrong, and Mrs. Allen Guell of Campbellsport; 35 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Harold Flood, city; and one brother, Henry Merjay, Rosendale. She was preceded in death by one daughter.

Sources

Burial: Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum in Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, USA

• FindAGrave Memorial^[1]

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #62006312

• "Wisconsin State Census, 1905," Viola Merjay in household of Henry Merjay, Osceola, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; citing p. 828, line 60, State Historical Society, Madison; FHL microfilm 1,020,448.