Mary Fahey

Mary worked as a domestic servant in the Gartz household at 4860 Kimbark in Chicago, assigned to dining service. She was from Lake Geneva, WI and possibly came to the attention of the Crane and Gartz families because her uncle Thomas was employed at the Crane estate in Lake Geneva.

Her body was identified by her brother, Thomas Fahey at Rolstons Mortuary.  Thomas and his brother John were attending the Griggs Business School in Chicago in 1903.  Her funeral was held in Lake Geneva, WI on January 7, 1904, led by Father Eugene E. Rielly, and she was buried in the Saint Francis de Sales Cemetery there.

Mary was the daughter of Irish immigrants, Patrick and Mary Ward Fahey.  Mary Ward Fahey gave birth to ten children and by age seventy had endured the deaths of seven.

Among the victims was a party made up of children and adults from the Gartz, Guthardt, Theni and Fahey families. Of six, only one survived.
Fatality — four-year-old Barbara Jane Gartz (b.1899)
Fatality — twelve-year-old Mary Dorthea Gartz (b.1891)
Fatality — forty-one-year-old Adelheid Kertscher Guthardt (b.1862), a governess
Fatality — sixteen-year-old Elise Guthardt (b.1888), Adelheid's daughter
Fatality — sixteen-year-old Emma Clara Theni (b.1886), nursemaid
Fatality — twenty-five-year-old Mary Fahey (b.1878), waitress
Survivor — thirty-seven-year-old Maud Parcells (b. c1866–), nursemaid