Molly Moran

"Aunt Molly" Is Dead; Pioneer in Omaha and West

"Aunt Molly" Moran, 83, pioneer resident of Omaha and Nebraska, died of illness incident to old age, Monday morning at St. Joseph’s hospital where she had lived for 20 years.

Native of County Armagh, Ireland, she came to the United States in 1871. As a domestic she worked in the homes of prominent Omaha families.

"Aunt Molly’s" husband, the late John Moran, stone mason, who dressed the first stone for Creighton university, died in 1908.

The Moran lived on a farm near Gretna from 1878 to 1888, then moved to Chase county and took up a homestead. Her husband’s health being poor Mrs. Moran went alone and established their homestead in a dugout. Because of her husband’s illness with rheumatism, she did nearly all of the work. For eight successive years dry winds destroyed their crop, but she was widely known for her ministrations to others in trouble. No relatives survive.

The body is at the Heafey & Heafey mortuary.

From the Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, Douglas Co., Nebraska), dated October 17, 1933