Mrs. McMahon, Pioneer Woman, Taken by Death Mrs. Sarah Ann McMahon, 77, died about 6:30 Sunday night, January 1, 1950, at the home of her son, Francis J. McMahon, here. She had been ill for some time.

Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Ohde Funeral Home with the Rev. Harlan Kruse, officiating. Burial will be in the Irwin Cemetery.

Mrs. McMahon, widow of James J. McMahon, was born Sarah Noon November 16, 1872, at Mount Horeb, Wisconsin. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward and Hannah (White) Noon who, in 1898, took their family to western Nebraska.

For four years they lived in a sod house on a land grant. Her father was a Civil War Veteran (at the opening of the war of 1861 he became a member of Company F. 11th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, although he was only 16 years old at the time. He served for four years until his discharge).

Coming to Iowa from Nebraska by covered wagon, the family located in Shelby County. Mrs. McMahon was educated in the rural schools and the Woodbine Normal School. She taught rural schools in Shelby County before her marriage which took place in 1907.

Mr. and Mrs. McMahon moved to Harlan, where Mr. McMahon was deputy sheriff from 1907 to 1911. He served as sheriff from 1911 to 1915. In the latter year, the family moved to a farm near Irwin, where they were living when Mr. McMahon died in 1924. Mrs. McMahon continued to live on the farm until 1939, when she moved to Manilla to be with her son, B. R. McMahon. She had been at the Francis J. McMahon home in Manning for some time.

Surviving are eight children: Mrs. Gus Jensen (Eunice) and "Bud" Francis James McMahon, Manning; Lester Earl McMahon, Lansing, Michigan; Jesse Clyde, Irwin; Glenn Duane, Manning; Walter, Manilla; Harry Raymond, Des Moines; and Bernard Rex, Manilla. She also leaves three brothers and two sisters: Frank Noon, Ireton; John, Harlan; Will, Atlantic; Hattie (Mrs. G.W.) Craney, Walnut; and Mrs. C.P. Christensen, Atlantic.