Agnes Kivlin

1913 - 2003

Agnes Kivlin

1913 - 2003

BORN

1913

DIED

2003

Agnes Kivlin Obituary

Published by Legacy Remembers on Mar. 18, 2003.
Funeral services and Mass of Christian Burial for Agnes A. Kivlin, 89, a resident of Davenport, will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church. Burial will be in Mount Calvary Cemetery.
Visitation will be 4-7 p.m. today at Halligan-McCabe-DeVries Funeral Home, where a prayer service will be offered at 5 p.m. There will be additional visitation Wednesday in the Gathering Space at the church from 10:30 a.m. until services.
Mrs. Kivlin died Sunday, March 16, 2003, at her residence in Davenport after an extended illness.
Agnes Anne Lehnerer was born Dec. 27, 1913, in Rock Island, a daughter of George and Nora (O’Connell) Lehnerer. She married John P. Kivlin on Nov. 8, 1941, at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Rock Island.
Agnes graduated from the former St. Joseph High School, Rock Island.
In earlier years, she had been employed in the business office of Illinois Bell.
She was a member of the church and Daughters of Isabella.
Agnes enjoyed traveling and especially was pleased to have taken a trip to Ireland with her husband, John.
Memorials can be made to the Sister Genevieve Freund Scholarship Fund, in care of St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church.
Survivors include her husband of nearly 62 years, John; daughters and sons-in-law, Noreen Kivlin Carstens, and her husband, Ron Carstens, Gahanna, Ohio, and Cecelia and Charles Harmeyer, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; a son, Charles M. Kivlin, Bettendorf, and Sue; seven grandchildren, John and Dan Kivlin, Finnian and Liam Carstens, and Melissa, Erin and Michael Harmeyer; four great-grandchildren, Allison, Katie, Owen and Evan Kivlin; a brother, Willie Lehnerer, Rock Island; and a sister-in-law, Betty Lehnerer, Lansing, Ill.
She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, George Lehnerer.

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