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Michael J. Bolger

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Birth	:	1898
Death	:	1950
Burial	:	Saint Michael Catholic Cemetery, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, USA
Coordinate	:	43.5786018, -96.7117004
Description	:	Info below provided by Member 47853254. Arrived in US June 5, 1920 from Dublin, Ireland M. J. Bolger Fatally injured in collision--Taken from Sioux Fall Argus Leader, Wed. May 3, 1950, Page 1 Colum 1&2 by Cathy Walker for Sue Rush. M. J. (Mike) Bolger, 52, of 232 North Summit Ave, government sales contract manager at the John Morrell & Co. plant here, died at 4:45 a.m. today in a local hospital from injuries suffered at about 1 a.m. in an automobile collision at Seventeenth street and Prairie Avenue. Mr. Bolger was driving south at the time, while the other driver,... Read More	Info below provided by Member 47853254. Arrived in US June 5, 1920 from Dublin, Ireland M. J. Bolger Fatally injured in collision--Taken from Sioux Fall Argus Leader, Wed. May 3, 1950, Page 1 Colum 1&2 by Cathy Walker for Sue Rush. M. J. (Mike) Bolger, 52, of 232 North Summit Ave, government sales contract manager at the John Morrell & Co. plant here, died at 4:45 a.m. today in a local hospital from injuries suffered at about 1 a.m. in an automobile collision at Seventeenth street and Prairie Avenue. Mr. Bolger was driving south at the time, while the other driver, 17 year old Norman Christenson, 717 South Glendale Ave., was headed west, police reported. Each driver apparently failed to see the other upon approaching the intersection, offices added. A physician said death was caused by irreversible, shock, and found several ribs to be fractured and the right lung punctured. An ambulance brought Mr. Bolger to the hospital. Mrs. Bolger, who was riding with her husband, escaped injury, police said. Damage amounted to approximately $350 to the Bolger car and $100 to the vehicle operated by Christenson, said to be owned by Mrs. Jask Foster, Colton, S. D. Mr. Bolger began his employment with Hohn Morrell & Co. in June of 1920 in the chill rooms of the kill and cut department. In December of 1930 he was made assistant manager of the Morrell branch at Aberdeen where he remained until June of 1940 when he was brought back to Sioux Falls as manager of the company's Yorkshire Creamery. With the closing of the creamery department, Mr. Bolger was transferred to the sales department in charge of government contracts. Mr. Bolger was born July 26,1897, at Dublin, Ireland, and came to the United States in 1920, coming directly to Sioux Falls. He married the former Mary O'Rourke here November 24, 1924. A member of St Joseph's catherdral, Mr. Bolger also was a member of the Knights of Columbus, Isaak Walton league and the Chamber of Commerce. Survivors include the widow: three daughters, Mary Esther, to be graduated from Kansas University this spring, Monica, who graduated from the McKenna hospital brance of the Presentation Home of Nursing last week and Kathleen a Cathedral high school senior; two sons, Brian, a CHS freshman, and Terry a first-grader; three brothers and his mother in Dublin. Rites May Be Friday The requiem Mass is planned tenitatively for Friday morning at St. Joseph's cathedral. Burial will be in St. Michael's cemetery. The body will be at the Barnett Funeral chapel tonight and at the residence tomorrow. The Knights of Columbus will recite the Rosary at the residence at 9 p. m. Thursday.

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Spouse

Mary O'Rourke Bolger

(1902 - 1986)

Children

Kathleen D. “Kathy” Bolger Barnett

(1932 - 2021)

Brian Michael Bolger

(1935 - 2010)

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