OBITUARY: William Soy, Mitchell County, Iowa


                  FUNERAL FOR WILLIAM SOY, 87 HELD SATURDAY

Funeral services were held Saturday morning at Sacred Heart Catholic church
in Osage for William Soy, 87, who died last Tuesday at Floyd County Memorial
hospital. Mr Soy had been in ill health since 1959, and was confined to the
hospital four weeks prior to his death.

The Rev. Fr. Thomas J. Conroy, church pastor, was in charge of the services.
Burial was in the church cemetery and arrangements were by C. R. Champion
and Sons.

William Soy was born in Lorhville, March 12, 1879, the son of William and
Mary Finnigan Soy. He farmed as a young man and later followed the carpentry
and woodworking trades.

His marriage to Elizabeth Todd of Arcadia, Neb., took place at Ord. Neb.,
June 4, 1902. They remained in that area until 1920, when they came to
Mitchell county. He was a carpenter here until he was injured in a fall
at work in 1959.

Mr Soy was a lifelong member of the Catholic Church.

He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, of Osage; five children, William E.
of Ames; Chester of Cedar Falls; Joseph of Simi, Calif.; Leo of Hunting
Beach, Calif.; Susan, Mrs. Clarence Steiger, of Kensett; 29 grandchildren,
14 great-grandchildren; one sister, Miss Katie Soy at a nursing home in
Fort Dodge.

He was preceded in death by his parents, one daughter, Theresa, five sisters
and three brothers.

(Aug. 25, 1966).



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