Born ‎26 Mar 1895 New York, died ‎2 May 1951 Washington County, Minnesota Event Description: Ft. Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis‎, age 56 years
An orphan train adoptee with some emotional problems when young. Birt h name Babcock. When he about 18 he “ran away,” said Helen Rooney Fel ling. He went somewhere south of Minneapolis, wrote a letter home t o his sister Mary once, and even stopped back one day, though his moth er and sister were gone to town. He married. A daughter or granddaug hter contacted Tim Ahles once.

Section C-7, Site 8531, US ARMY, PFC, WORLD WAR I.

Born ‎29 Jan 1898 Raymond Township, Stearns County, Minnesota, died ‎19 Oct 1956 Padua, Stearns County, Minnesota‎, age 58 years
Baptismal sponsors: George Rooney, Bridget Rooney.
Died of coronary Thrombosis.
St. Michael's Hospital, Sauk Centre, MN

Born ‎13 Jan 1900 Raymond Township, Stearns County, Minnesota, died ‎16 Sep 1960 Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minnesota‎, age 60 years, buried ‎20 Sep 1960 Padua, Stearns County, Minnesota
Baptismal sponsors: Thomas Rooney, Mary Rooney.

The had no kids. She was 39 when married.

Born ‎4 May 1902 Raymond Township, Stearns County, Minnesota, died ‎22 Jun 1975 Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minnesota‎, age 73 years, buried Padua, Stearns County, Minnesota
Ambrose attended St John's University and worked briefly in Minneapolis before returning to the family farm his father had homesteaded in 1875, where he spent the rest of his life. He died in St Michael's hospital, in Sauk Centre. He had been a victim of iron diabetes for 10 years and underwent surgery in1966 in Minneapolis and in 1970 in St Cloud.


Obituary originally published St. Cloud Times, 24 Jun 1975:

ROONEY, AMBROSE M.

Ambrose M. Rooney, 73, a lifetime resident of Padua, died Sunday, June 20, 1975, at St. Michael's Hospital in Sauk Centre. He had been a victim of iron diabetes for 10 years and underwent surgery in 1966 in Minneapolis and in 1970 in St. Cloud.

He was born May 4, 1902, the son of Padua pioneers Michael and Margaret Rooney. He was the third or four children, the others being Francis, Mary (Majerus) and Helen (Felling). He attended St. John's University and worked briefly in Minneapolis before returning to the family farm his father had homesteaded in 1875, where he spent the rest of his life.

A requiem High Mass was celebrated Wednesday, June 25, by Rev. Vincent Fettgather at St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Padua. A special offertory song was sung by relatives of the deceased and verses from the Book of Wisdom and the Book of Psalms were read from the family Bible by two nephews. His sister, Helen Felling, and sister-in-law, Mrs. Joseph Rooney, carried the offertory gifts. His nephews were pallbearers and his great-nephews, Mass servers.

Honorary pallbearers included Joe Arens, Jerome Ebensteiner, James Kenna, Howard Rooney, Norbert Schwieters and George Wieners.

Present at the funeral were his sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Felling of Woodacre, Calif., his sister-in-law, Josephine Rooney, and their children. They included Kathleen Walz, Richard Rooney and Sharon Ostendorf of Brooten; James Felling, Bernard Felling and John Charles Felling of Detroit, Mich.; Joan Domke or St. Paul; Patricia Kelly of Richfield; Frances Fauskee of Minneapolis; Gerald Rooney of Belgrade; Noreen Miller of Brooklyn Center; David Rooney of Rochester; Daniel Rooney of Hastings; Michael Felling or Owatonna, Mary Margaret Bommarito of St. Clair Shores, Mich.; Daniel Felling of Flint, Mich.; Geraldine Walsh of Lagunitas, Calif.; and Gerald Felling of Mt. Clemens, Mich.

Obituary published 24 Jun 1975:

Rooney

PADUA - Ambrose M. Rooney, 73, died June 22 at St. Michael's Hospital, Sauk Centre. He was born May 4, 1902, to the late Michael and Margaret Rooney and farmed all his life in the area.

He is survived by one sister, Mrs. Edward (Helen) Felling, Wood Acres, Calif.

Mr. Rooney was preceded in death by a brother, Francis, and a sister, Mary Majerus.

Funeral services will be Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at St. Anthony's Catholic Church with burial in the parish cemetery. The Rev. Vincent Fettgether will officiate.

Friends may call after 4 p.m. today at Schad-Corrigan Funeral Home, Sauk Centre. St. Anthony's parish will say the rosary at the funeral home at 9 tonight.

Originally published August 1998, Padua Cemetery, by Ginny Walz Borgerding

Ambrose Michael Rooney was born May 4, 1902, the son of Michael and Margaret (Murphy) Rooney. He was the third child of four children. Ambrose attended St. John's University and worked briefly in Minneapolis before returning to the family farm, due to the death of his father. He spent the rest of his life farming and raising sheep. Ambrose never married. He is remembered for always having a pipe in his mouth, and would give the children little empty matchboxes to hold their treasures.

Ambrose had been a victim of iron diabetes for ten years before his death on June 22, 1975. Rev Vincent Fettgether officiated at the funeral Mass held at St. Anthony Catholic Church in Padua. Ambrose's parents, brother Francis and sister Mary Majerus, brother-in-law Edwin Felling, and many other relatives are buried in Padua.

Born ‎1 Sep 1904 Raymond Township, Stearns County, Minnesota Event Description: the farm near Padua, died ‎8 Sep 1997 Lagunitas, Marin County, California Event Description: St. Anthony of Padua Cemetery, Stearns, Minnesota‎, age 93 years, buried Padua, Stearns County, Minnesota
Helene attended St Benedict's Academy at St Joseph, MN, St. Catherine's College in St Paul, and State Teachers College at Bemidji. She had been a successful teacher for several years before her marriage. Helen and her husband and Geraldine moved from Detroit to California October 14, 1973.

Helen B. Felling, 92, of Woodacre, Calif., died Monday, Sept. 8, 1997, in Kaiser Hospital, San Rafael, Calif.
Funeral services were held Sept. 13 in St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church, Padua, with the Rev. James Statz officiating. Interment followed in the parish cemetery. Helen Felling was born on Sept. 1, 1904, to Michael and Margaret (Mruphy) Rooney on a farm near Padua. She attended the College of Saint Benedict, St. Joseph, St. Catherine's College, St. Paul, and teacher's college in Glenwood. She taught in rural one-room school houses until her marriage to Edwin Felling in 1936. After their marriage, they moved to Detroit, Mich., where she was active in church activities in St. Dominic's parish. During World War II she took a job to help with the war effort. Later she worked for the post office and in the 1960's, she helped spearhead President Johnson's war on poverty. She worked for the Poverty Program in Detroit as a senior counselor until she retired at age 70. In 1974, Helen and her husband moved to Woodacre, Calif. Edwin died May 18, 1976. Helen continued to live in California, but spent most of her summers in Padua. She lived in Woodacre until age 91 and has since lived with her daughter Geraldine and son-in-law Joseph Walsh in Lagunitas, Calif. She was a member of St. Cecilia's Parish in Lagunitas. Survivors include: eight children, Edwin and wife Ann, and Michael, all of Marathon, Fla., Bernard and wife Barbara, Jerry, Geraldine Walsh and husband Joseph, all of Lagunitas, Mary Bommarito of Grosse Pointe, Mich., Daniel and wife Suzette of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and John and wife Christi of Woodacre, C alif: 18 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; sister, Mary Majerus; and brothers, Francis and Ambrose Rooney. Pallbearers were Edwin, Michael, Bernard, Daniel, David and Jerry Felling; Joe Walsh and Richard Rooney. In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Padua. Arrangements were made with Patton-Schad Funeral Service, Sauk Centre.