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InPrint

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:47:13 GMT

Notices, post-obituary, where MartyJr has appeared InPrint:

in Editor and Publisher, sourced from
Politics in Minnesota

thanks to daughter Meg.

DefaultTiddlers

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:43:14 GMT

Contents
MartinJMcGowanJr
PhotoGallery
MJM_Jr_Tributes
InPrint

MartinJMcGowanJr

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:16:00 GMT

This is the on-line memorial to MartinJMcGowanJr. Not unlike his son Sean, who died 2 1/2 years earlier, it's fitting to collect the ephemeral tributes in a place with the family name.

Obituaries:

Online -- Star and Tribune
Star and Tribune News â was the Star and Tribune's featured news Obituary on his funeral day.
Eulogy â delivered by his son, MartyIII, on the occasion of his funeral mass at Holy Childhood parish on Midway Pkwy in St Paul MN. The coincidence is Marty Jr's funeral was on son Sean's birthday, Marty Jr having died on son MartyIII's birthday not quite a week before.

MartyIII

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:09:00 GMT

a.k.a Marty (Mick) McGowan III, evidence found at:

MainMenu

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:05:00 GMT

Contents
MartinJMcGowanJr
PhotoGallery
MJM_Jr_Tributes
InPrint

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MainMenu
DefaultTiddlers
WelcomeToTiddlyspot
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MJM_Jr_Eulogy

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:22:00 GMT

In behalf of Mom (Betty), Dad's sister Ellie (Simcoe), Dad & Mom's children, grandchildren, and now 4 great-grandchildren, welcome and thank you for coming to remember and honor Martin J McGowan Jr.

Signature Accomplishments

In addition to his & Mom's great family, Dad's signature accomplishments were in journalism and in the legislature. Special thank to those of you here representing these callings. In the light, one of the great lessons he taught me is there is no higher calling than public service or in the business of informing the public. One of the founders wrote that an informed citizenry is essential to the public welfare and order. Martin J McGowan Jr lived that lesson as well as any. Dad would use liberal philosophy as the best means of making the connection between informing the public and serving the public.

Parents, Faith

Dad was born to Martin James Sr and Olga Vieg in October, 1920. His mother, Olga died from TB when Dad was less than three. I digress, but in addition to Dad's wonderful obituary, you can listen to him recount some of the events in his life in a StoryCorps interview. This is/will be playing,....

In addition to Dad's liberal political outlook, he was also a man of faith. He followed his father as a trustee of St John's in Appleton, and saw the building of the modern building now housing the parish. In practice of the faith, I well remember him making the sign of the cross as we passed a Catholic church. The family rosary was a staple of our growing up years. In the StoryCorps interview, he recounts that he never knew his mother and was looking forward to meeting her in their next life.

Family, Moves

Dad & Mom raised us nine children in more or less 3 groups of 3, sometimes recognized as the "Old" 3, "middle" 3, and in much earlier times "little" three. The old trio was myself, then Dan, and Meg. After a 4 year hiatus, we added Vince, Kev, and Sean, and after 4 more, Brendan, and Maureen, who share a birthday a year apart. After a few more years, Mike made the family complete. This following story is mythic, or indeed true; When Mike was about 5, by this time, we lived across the street on Frankson Ave. And the old three are in college. Mike asks Dad, "Dad, how come there are so many of us?" (apparently he has few friends who come from families of nine). Dad didn't have to think about it too long before replying, "Well Mike, we had to have all those other kids to get to you!"

In Dad's life, the community may have come first, but never at the exclusion of the family. Listening to the StoryCorps interview, I'm reminded of how pained he was by the separation caused by his service in the legislature. At first, it comes across as how to fill the void, then realizing the family responsibilities having to be squeezed into a weekend. Moving the family to St Paul was his way to bring the two: family and public service together.

This move ultimately focused the family on the Twin Cites, the middle three all graduating from high school here. And five now are living here. In the mean time, Mom and Dad moved to Blue Earth, where the young three all graduated, then on to St Cloud, and finally retirement on Pelican Lake on land from the Nolan homestead. They've lived in Lyngblomsten for much of this decade.

As many of you know, we lost Sean in early '07 in Las Vegas. That Mom and Dad couldn't make it to his funeral was one of the big disappointments in his life.

Newspaper Days

Dad's days and considerable accomplishments in the newspaper business are well-chronicled in the obituary. His signature column over any of his newspapers, in particular the Appleton Press and the Blue Earth Post was "The Cubs Corner". He regarded his father's "Martinis" as the better writing. But his may have reached more, in particular with his ability to relate the trials and travails of raising a tribe of nine.

Joys

What were Dad's joys in life? In addition to really loving the family, the news, and politics, what were his own things.
First (and possibly last), the HAM radio. For those too young, no, we didn't make radios out of ham, but that's what we called amateur radio operators. He enjoyed making radios, before the transistor, and stereo FM. He was proud of his certificates for "Worked All Continents", and "Worked 200 countries", exchanging cards with those he talked to around the world. He was part of a local community who gathered on 2 meters, long before Facebook... Dad was proud of his call-sign: W0(ZERO) U G V, "uncle George victor". He retained an interest to the air-waves to his last days.

His love of politics included welcoming the likes of Hubert Humphrey and Gene McCarthy to Appleton on their campaigns. The curious among you can ask Dan the story behind the "Humphrey Slept Here" bed. The only opposition he had in his 1960 campaign were those letter-writers who wanted to take their distrust of Catholics in the White House to the local races. But he felt well-supported by and supportive of the people of Swift County.
Dad's recreation was the game of golf. A few of us took it up, but more importantly, the Appleton Golf Club provided may pleasant evenings for the family. I'm sure Mom and Dad look on the Appleton years with nostalgic fondness.
It would be hard to pin the label "passionate" on Dad, but his love of the game of baseball came close enough. Among the family email venues, "mcgowansbaseball", generates as much energy as "mcgowanspolitics". Dan and Vince took up the game through high school, and Sean demonstrated the most accomplishment. Baseball offers us a way to begin to close the circle.

Mom and Dad's 1943 honeymoon was on the fourth of July weekend, and war-time brief, only to Duluth for the weekend. Dad and Mom discussed it this way: "Let's get married on the fourth of July weekend, since we can always gather a party for the anniversaries". A few years later they took a "proper" honeymoon, traveling east to the baseball destinations of Chicago (White Sox and Cubs), and Boston (Red Sox and Braves â check your BB history). Mom, since her days as a college newspaper editor, had shared her wisdom, to "Never marry a newspaper man". She might have added "especially if he's a baseball fan".

Closing

The 3rd of July Anniversary proved to be the enduring family tradition. Mom and Dad had been on Beaver Lake out of St Cloud when their grandchildren were young and we all recall many fun moments there. Retirement, and their moved to Pelican continued the tradition. Dan has held the anniversary celebration on West Twin out of Nisswa for many years. Last year was a particularly important anniversary when Mom and Dad met their first Great-grandchild. But we knew it was the end of an era when Dad's mobility limited his ability to climb the steps. Our unstated recognition was last month's gathering on Dan's back porch might be Dad's last, but not lose him so soon. Meg had returned to get Mom and Dad settled in their new quarters at Lyngblomsten, and they were settling into their new situations.

MJM_Jr_Tributes

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:54:00 GMT

From sister, Ellie Simcoe
From cousin,Mary Jo Stouffer
From son, Dan McGowan, replying to Ellie
From AHS Classmate: Tom McElligott

TomMcElligott

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:54:00 GMT

From: *Ann McElligott <..>
Date: *September 5, 2009 2:03:37 PM HST
To: *Meg McGowan <..>
Subject: **Re: Martin McGowan*

Dear Meg,

We are so sad to hear that your Dad died. Tom had talked so often
about all that he and Marty did in high school. But he did not tell
me about how accomplished he was in the rest of his life. I was
delighted to read the obituary and learn more about him.

We would like to send a card to your Mom. Can you send her address,
and yours as well.

Tom sends his condolences with deep gratitude for the friendship they
shared throughout all these years. He said, as the last of the class,
now he would have the next high school class reunion right here at
Willamette View.

May God bless and keep you,

Ann and TomMcElligott

PhotoGallery

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:32:00 GMT

This is a PhotoGallery for MartinJMcGowanJr and family.

First Contribution from daughter Meg:

For those interested I posted an album of photos of Dad on picassweb:

http://picasaweb.google.com/meg.mcgowan/MartinJr19202009#

Editor's Highlights:

GuidelinesForCollaborators

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:44:00 GMT

To contribute an item or article, you will first need the password for the weblog. write to me if you'd like to to have the password.

When you receive it,

click on options on the right menu
enter the password in the "tiddlyspot password" box, and if you're on a reliable (i.e. your home computer), then you may [ ] save the password ...
enter your UserName, like that, in MixedCase, with at least two non-connected UpperCase characters in a single string in the other field

Having secured permissions,

just click on the new tiddler or new journal in the right margin.
then assign a title for your tiddler (the mostly blank text box that pops up), where a journal is a tiddler with a date.
select from the shadow fields in the upper right of the text box; they are your choices at any moment You quickly get the idea on how they work.
Lastly, after making your updates, you are done editing, and you may then save to web on the option menu.

Good luck!

Dans_reEllie

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:50:00 GMT

Ellie â You were only 8 years old when Dad and Mom were married â hanging around gambling joints and saloons at that tender age! But the Brainerd area was the gambling mecca of Minnesota during those years â slot machines everywhere, and you didn't even need a license â just had to give the county sheriff his cut of the proceeds. So it was hard to avoid the slot machines.

Nice memories of your big brother â some of them I had heard, others were new. I'm sure it was "cool" to have a handsome. big older brother when you were young. And I do remember how strong Dad was when your Dad died â how much he respected your Dad â he just went about the business of taking care of things â family and the business, despite the grief of losing the only parent he ever knew. I remember sitting in the study of our Snelling house while he went about the business of calling family members to give them the news, and when calling Uncle Joe in Tucson he had to place the call and when it was connected (this was 1954 after all) the operator would call him back. I just remember his very business-like sadness, because he had a job to do, and he went about doing it. I have no doubt he shed quite a few tears in private.

The tributes keep pouring in â Bachmans just delivered a huge plant to my office from my committee chair, Sen. Ann Rest, and several current and former legislative staffers have sent condolences, several of them mentioning that they remember Dad from his days on the Ethical Practices Board in the 1980's but weren't aware that he was in the House long before that. Everyone has said that his long career of public service and private enterprise was most impressive when reading his obituaries. And it was. â Dan

MartinJMcGowanJrStoryCorps

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:30:00 GMT

This is the on-line memorial to MartinJMcGowanJr. Not unlike his son Sean, who died 2 1/2 years earlier, it's fitting to collect the ephemeral tributes in a place with the family name.

Obituaries:

Online -- Star and Tribune
Star and Tribune News â was the Star and Tribune's featured news Obituary on his funeral day.
Eulogy â delivered by his son, MartyIII, on the occasion of his funeral mass at Holy Childhood parish on Midway Pkwy in St Paul MN. The coincidence is Marty Jr's funeral was on son Sean's birthday, Marty Jr having died on son MartyIII's birthday not quite a week before.

StoryCorps

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:29:00 GMT

Here is the website
Stay tuned for the MartinJMcGowanJrStoryCorps interview itself.

SiteSubtitle

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:27:00 GMT

a virtual neighborhood for the McGowan clan

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:19:00 GMT

The Table of Contents:
Contents
MartinJMcGowanJr
PhotoGallery
MJM_Jr_Tributes
InPrint

McGowans

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:15:00 GMT

This is all about the family McGowan. It's easier to have a stub rather than escape every use of the McGowan name, as done here.

MJS_Tribute

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:14:00 GMT

from Mary Jo Stouffer:
Ellie. . .what a neat tribute to your brother. . .you are in between generations. . .(as I guess am I). . .And how well I remember that gambling experience at the lake resort in Brainard. . .you are so right. . .I have NEVER liked the slots or any gambling!

To all the McGowans. . .I have been off the list for a couple of months. . .a bad time to be out of touch. . .Had Patty and Marty III not called me, I would not have known of Marty's death. How I wish I could have been there. . .

Today I have gotten a few group emails. . .hopefully I am back on! My love and prayers to all of you. . .am sure your farewell to Marty Jr. was beautiful. Much love, Mary Jo. . .in Tucson.

EllieMcGowanSimcoeTribute

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:11:00 GMT

From Ellie McGowan:
While Marty III gave such a touching tribute to Marty Jr. at the funeral, I wanted to share a few memories that I have from a sisterâs point of view. â¦.

One of my first memories is of how handsome Marty was! I remember seeing him at Oscar Lilivejenâs gas station, when I must have been about five, and thinking what a good-looking brother I had. .. .

We had a good time in the Brainerd lake area after Marty and Bettyâs wedding. Mary Jo and I discovered the gambling machines while our parents celebrated at dinner. After a poor beginning, Mary Jo and I gave up gambling for life.

I remember great Sunday treats at the Candy Kitchen, after Sunday massâ¦.Aunt Gerty was there, along with any of Martyâs children who had reached the appropriate age

I appreciated the many trips Marty made to far-away football games. I think the old Kaiser-Fraiser was sort of a Press car, and I suspect that he was coerced into taking my friends and me. Iâm sure that he was not interested in our stories in the back seat. . .

When Dad was ill, Marty came to the house so often, and consulted on the running of the Press. When Dad died, he was so impressive in how he handled both his grief and the publication of the Press at the same time.

He managed a business and a growing family with grace.

Marty came to visit me when we discovered that I had TB. Iâm suspect that it reminded him of the how his mother had died. .. .I was touched when he came to see me.

Marty made endless trips to Minneapolis with my mother and me. He could hurry back and forth in a day, while if my mother or I drove, we would go between 30 to 60 miles an hour and stop in Litchfield for lunch.

Marty visited several of my apartments in Minneapolis, and I was so proud to have him walk me down the aisle at my wedding. He still looked handsome!

We were so happy when Marty and Betty came to visit in Westborough, and after our children were grown, we were able to travel to visit him at Lingblomsten. . ..

Marty and Betty always called me on my birthday, and we called him on his. Iâll miss those calls. While we were far apart in age, I was so proud to call him my brother!