 | | Birth Date: September 28, 1918 | | Death Date: February 22, 2010 | | Dolores (Donahoe) Lawler - 91, of Fort Dodge, died Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at the Marian Home. | | Funeral services will be 9:45 a.m. Monday, March 1st in the chapel of Laufersweiler-Sievers Funeral Home and 10:30 at St Matthew’s Church in Clare with Msgr. Kevin McCoy and Rev. Bruce Lawler, concelebrating at the Mass of Christian Burial. | | St. James Cemetery, Clare, Iowa | | Visitation will be after 4:00 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home, where there will be a Catholic Daughters of the Americas Rosary at 4:30 p.m. and a vigil at 7:00 p.m. | Survivors include three sons and a daughter, Joe D. (Elaine) and Dan J. of Fort Dodge, Denny (LeAnn) of Clare and Anna Marie Lawler of Delmar, NY; 11 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, Richard and Nellie (Mahoney) Donahoe; her husband, James C. Lawler in 1988; and a sister, Dorothy Quinn.
Dolores Donahoe was born on a farm near Clare on September 28, 1918. She graduated from Manson High School in 1936 and taught school in Webster County for six years. On November 27, 1940 she was united in marriage to James C. Lawler at St. John’s Catholic Church in Gilmore City. The couple established their home on a farm southeast of Clare and lived there forty-eight years. Dolores remained on the farm three years following the death of her husband and moved to Fort Dodge in 1991.
She was a member of Holy Trinity Parish, Catholic Daughters of the Americas, was a volunteer at St Edmonds, was a long-time co-trustee for St James Cemetery, and was a member of the Green Book Committee that published the St Matthews Parish Historical Edition 1886-1979.
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