Dorothy C. O’Dougherty
Funeral services were held Friday, Oct. 10, 1986 at Shum-Novinger Funeral Home for Dorothy C. O’Dougherty, 81. Rev. Carl Cummings officiated with burial in Fairview Cemetery, Bedford. Mrs. O’Dougherty died October 7, 1986 at Independence, Mo.
Dorothy Clark Fox O’Dougherty, daughter of George Fox and Harriet Brown Fox, was born at Little Sioux, Iowa November 12, 1904. She grew to maturity in the Little Sioux community where she attended the public school and the Methodist Church.
On January 27, 1927 she was united in marriage to Henry C. O’Dougherty at Albany, Mo. and they made their home in Bedford, Iowa.
Four children were born to this union: George, Lola, Stana and Avis.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, who died in 1959; two brothers Joe and Calvin Fox and one sister Moneta Fox.
Left to cherish her memory are the children: George O’Dougherty and his wife Ruth of Stockton, Calif.; Lola and her husband Phillip Neal of Springdale, Ark.; Stana and her husband Nathaniel Cracraft of Eagleville, Mo.; and Avis O’Dougherty of Glenwood, Ia.; 11 grandchildren; four great grandchildren; a brother, Loyson Fox and his wife Irene of Council Bluffs, Ia.; and a sister Harriet and her husband Ray Schneider of Omaha, Ne.; other relatives and friends.
She was a member of the United Methodist Church.
Her family and friends will remember her as a kind and loving mother, friend and neighbor.
