Obit: Maguire, Irma (1909 - 1981)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Maguire, Hommel, Woelffer, Covell, Lind

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 12/03/1981

Maguire, Irma (8 February 1909 – 26 November 1981)

A Neillsville native, Irma (Woelffer) Maguire, passed away in Spartanburg, S.C ., on November 26 after six months of illness. The deceased was born in Neillsville on February 8, 1909, to Victor and Nina (Hommel) Woelffer. She was educated in Neillsville and graduated from a teacher training course. She later attended Eau Claire Teachers College. She taught in Clark County schools for several years and then moved to Milwaukee.

On July 3, 1937, she married Kenneth Maguire of Campus, Ill. The couple lived in Illinois, where her husband was a civil engineer. In later years, they moved to many places in the world while he was with the U.S. Army. Col. Maguire died in 1966; at that time the couple was living in Alaska. Mrs. Maguire then moved to Urbana, Ill., where she was a house mother for a sorority until recent years.

Surviving her are two sons, John of Las Vegas, Nev., and James of Spartanburg; four grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. A.C. Covell of Neillsville and Mrs. R. E. Lind of Omaha, Neb.

Mrs. Maguire’s burial will be made in Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington, D.C., where her husband is also buried.