Grace McDonough

Grace McDonough age 100, died peacefully Wednesday, February 11, 2026.

Mass of Christian Burial will be held 11:00 Thursday, February 19, 2026, at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Prairieburg with interment in the Immaculate Conception Cemetery, rural Monticello. Friends may call from 4 until 8 Wednesday, February 18, 2026, at the Goettsch Funeral Home, Monticello. Friends may also call on Thursday from 10 until 11 at the church. In lieu of flowers a memorial fund has been established.

Surviving are 6 children, Deb McDonough, Donna (Kevin) Arthofer, Larry McDonough, Meg (Joe) Wheeler, Ellen (Tony) Alessio, Barb (Todd) Peck, and 10 grandchildren, 4 step-grandchildren, in-laws, Mary Jane Crowley and Bill (Beth) McDonough and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Donald in 1996, 2 brothers, George and John White and 2 sisters, Katherine and Mary Turnis.

Marjorie Grace White was born August 17, 1925, at home on the family farm, 4 miles west of Worthington. She was the youngest daughter of Lawrence and Katherine Turnis, White. Grace attended both the rural schools near her home and St. Paul's Catholic School in Worthington. She graduated from Sacred Heart High School in Monticello in 1942.

Grace worked at the Chet Condit Insurance agency in Monticello for a year before going to Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in Dubuque. She graduated in 1946 and returned to Monticello where she was a nurse at John McDonald Hospital for several years. She went back to Dubuque to work at the new Xaiver Hospital before moving to Iowa City. Grace worked as a surgical nurse at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City until she got married.

Grace married Donald McDonough on July 23, 1955, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Monticello. The couple owned and operated McDonough Feed Store and farmed in Castle Grove Township.

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