Mary ‘Polly’ Edith McCormick Fitzgerald 1876 – 1949
Mary ‘Polly’ Edith McCormick Fitzgerald 1876 – 1949
Mary McCormick was the oldest child of Montana pioneers Washington J. McCormick and Kate Higgins McCormick. Mary was the first of seven children born to the McCormicks in the Missoula area. The McCormick family has had a huge impact on Missoula and Montana.
The obituary below is taken from the Ravalli County Obituaries website:
Mary Fitzgerald Rites Held Saturday
Requiem high mass for Mary McCormick Fitzgerald, 80, daughter of the late Major Washington Jay McCormick and niece of one of the cofounders of Missoula, who died in Missoula Thursday, was celebrated Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at the St. Francis Xavier church in Missoula. Rev. Louis J. Gets, S.J, was celebrant. Interment was in the McCormick family plot in Missoula cemetery.
Mrs. Fitzgerald was the sister of the late Washington Jay McCormick who died in Missoula March 7, 1949 and who was a former valley resident. She was the last living child. Their father had a home in Stevensville at one time.
She was born August 8, 1876. She married Dr. William Hope Fitzgerald in New York June 20, 1902. In the early 1900’s, she was Paris correspondent for the New York Herald.
Ravalli Republican, August 14, 1950
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