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Veronica O’Neill, 98, longtime Clarion resident died April 16, 2008, at Careage of Clarion.
Funeral services for Veronica O’Neill will be held on Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 1:00 PM at St. John’s Catholic Church in Clarion, Iowa with Father Paul Lippstock and Rev. Thomas O’Neill officiating. Burial will be held at St. John’s Catholic Cemetery in Clarion.
Visitation will be held on Friday, April 18, 2008 5:00 – 6:00 PM with a Rosary Service at 6:00 PM at Ewing Funeral Home in Clarion, Iowa.
Veronica was born in Creston, Iowa, on July 12, 1909, eldest of five children born to Dr. and Mrs. John Anstey of Massena, Iowa.
After completing a B.A. degree at the University of Iowa, and at a time when jobs were difficult to find, Veronica worked at Marshall Fields in Chicago before accepting a teaching position in Massena, Iowa. Soon after, Veronica accepted a teaching position in the Clarion Public Schools and moved to Clarion in the 1930’s where she met and married Francis O’Neill in 1940. The couple had two children Peggy and John.
Veronica was an involved member of the Delta Zeta Sorority while at the University of Iowa. In Clarion, Veronica was a charter member of the American Association of University Women in Clarion, was active in church work with St. John’s Catholic Church, and taught in the Clarion Public Schools when her children were enrolled in college. In later years, Veronica and Francis enjoyed spending several months a year in their mobile home at the Fountain East Mobile Home Park in Mesa, Arizona.
Veronica is survived by her daughter Peggy of Las Vegas, Nevada; her brother Dr. George Anstey and his wife Catherine of St. Louis, Missouri; her sister-in-law Mrs. Maurice (Marie) O’Neill of Council Bluffs, Iowa; her brother-in-law, John Hughes of Anchorage, Alaska; numerous nieces and nephews and many cousins.
She was precede in death by her parents, her husband, Francis (Irish), her son, John, her sisters Marjorie Hughes and Helen van Antwerp, and brother John Eugene.