John J. LAVELLE

                   Copy of obituary from Denver Paper:

Mrs. Margaret Lavelle
    Recitation of the rosary for Mrs. Margaret Lavelle, resident of Denver for half a century and Democratic leader, will beheld at 8 p.m.
    Requiem high mass will be sung at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow in St. Catherine's Church and burial will be in Mount Olivet.
    Mrs. Lavelle, who lived at 3822 King St., died Friday after a long illness in Stamford, Texas, where she was visiting her daughter, Miss Catherine Lavelle.
    Born in County Mayo, Ireland, Nov. 11, 1872, Mrs. Lavelle migrated to this country and Chicago when she was 15. She married there in1892 to John J. Lavelle.  They moved to Denver six years later.  Her husband, a retired Denver Fire captain, survives her.
    Mrs. Lavelle always evinced a great interest in national, state, and city politics.  For the last 25 years she had served as Democratic committeewoman in Precint D-6.
    She was a member of the Altar and Rosary Society of St. Catherine's Church, the Tabernacle Society and the Jane Jefferson Club.
    Surviving, in addition to her husband and daughter, Catherine are three other daughters, Mrs. F.R. Linsenmaier and Mrs. Arthur Dees of Denver, and Mrs. Andrew J. Collins, San Francisco; a son,John R. Lavelle, Strafford, PA;17 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.  Mrs. Lavelle reared two of her grandchildren, Miss Rosann O'Brien of Denver and Mrs. John Duggan of Chicago, after the death of their mother when they were infants.