| A week ago today the sad news of the death of Mr. John Foley reached the people of this town. About twenty minutes past 12 o’clock on last Saturday while sitting on the porch of his residence reading a newspaper and waiting for his sons to put away their horses previous to eating dinner, he was visited by a stroke of apoplexy. He felt its approach and called to his oldest son, Jerry, who was coming towards the house from the barn, to come quickly and catch him that he was about to fall. He was carried into the house and laid on a bed and the frightened members of the household quickly set about to alleviate his apparent sufferings and keep him, if possible, from the door of death. The immediate neighbors, being apprised of his dangerous condition, came and assisted in the endeavor to resuscitate him. Everything that kind and willing hands could do to keep him alive was done for him, but death had set its seal upon his brow and claimed him as its own. The priest and doctor had also been sent for and when the latter assured them that life was extinct, the slender thread of hope to which the grief stricken wife had tenaciously clung was shattered and she gave vent to her feeling in tears of grief. Mr. Foley was a kind husband, an indulgent father, a hard worker and he strove diligently to provide a comfortable home for his family. He was well-known and had a number of friends through the county and he always met them with a kindly smile, a jocose word and a cordial shake of the hand. He was liberal and genial; he was friendly and charitable, and he will be much missed not only by his relatives but also by his acquaintances. Mr. Foley was born in the county of Cork, Ireland, between fifty-two and five years ago. He immigrated to this country when he was but a boy. He stayed in the east but a short time when he came west and located in Omaha. It was there he married the wife who is now left with nine living children to mourn his death. Shortly after his marriage he moved to the farm where he worked and labored for more than twenty-five years until this day of the week when he died. The last sad rites were performed over his remains last Monday morning in St. Joseph’s Catholic Church on Colfax Street. At 10:30 o’clock, a high mass of requiem was celebrated by Father Barrett who paid a merited tribute to the good qualities of the deceased. The funeral cortege, which was a very large one, then proceeded to the cemetery north of town where he remains were interred. The pallbearers were Patrick Quinlan, Patrick Murray, James O’Brien, Michael Glennon and Dan Fenton of DeSoto.
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