One of the best-known members of a family long resident in the district died yesterday in the person of Mrs. Philip McEvoy, of Osgoode, Ont., at the age of 78 years. Death followed a brief illness, and occurred at the home of a son-in-law, John H. McEwen, Osgoode.
Mrs. McEvoy was formerly Miss Mary L. Daley, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Daley, and was born at Osgoode. She had lived in that district all her life, and was loved by all who knew her. She was a devout member of St. John's Roman Catholic Church, and her death will be mourned all through the parish.
Mrs. McEvoy's husband predeced her by three months. She is survived by four sons. Thomas, Augustine and Raymond, of Osgoode, and James of Detroit, Mich.; two daughters, Mrs. J. H. McEwen, Osgoode, and Mrs. John Meagher, South Gloucester, as well as a number of grandchildren. Also surviving are, two brothers, Michael and James Daley, both of Osgoode; and three sisters, Mrs. John Kelly, Manotick, Mrs. Thomas Grant and Mrs. Hugh Cleland, both of Osgoode.
The funeral will be held at 9:30 a.m. Thursday from the residence of her son-in-law, for requiem high mass at St. John's Church at ten o'clock. Interment will be in the parish cemetery.
