The funeral of Patrick Dewan, a venerable pioneer of Osgoode, who passed away at the family home last Sunday, took place Tuesday to St. John’s church, where a solemn high mass of requiem was chantad by the Rev. Father McCauley. The cortege was very large. The pallbearers were Messrs. M. Doyle, J. O’Connor, N. Turner, W. Doyle, M. Daley and J. Shields Interment was made in St. John’s cemetery.
The late Mr. Dewan was born in Clonmel, Tipperary, Ireland, in 1820, and came to Canada with his parents in 1827. For the last sixty-six years he had been a resident of Osgoode, where by his kind and genial disposition he had won the high esteem of all. He leaves to mourn his loss a widow, four sons, Patrick and John, of Osgoode, Barnard of Assiniboia, Sask., and Joseph, of Minneapolis, Minn.; two daughters, Mrs. Wm. O’Brien and Mrs. B. Shields, Osgoode and three sisters, Mrs. M. Whelan, Ottawa. The deceased is also survived by thirty-one grandchildren and four great grandchildren, all of whom with the exeption of two reside in Osgoode. The sympathy of a large circle of friends is extended the sorrowing relatives.
