Printed in the Benkelman, NE Post, March 1983
Jahew McLung Keenan was born to Alexander Keenan and Anna Pettit Keenan on August 15, 1915, on a farm in Cheyenne County, Kansas, south of Benkelman, Nebraska, and passed away March 11, 1983, at home on a farm near California, Missouri. He was 67 years old.
Jay went to school and grew to manhood in Cheyenne County. He married Leona Carr in 1935. They had a son who died in infancy.
They moved to Ohio in 1936 where Jay worked on farms. Jay returned to the Benkelman area in 1939 where he worked on farms until he went into the service in 1942. He served in the medical corps until 1945, then returned to the Benkelman area where he farmed. He married Zila Williams in 1946. Having had bad luck with marriage he decided to help an aunt with three fatherless children raise her family to whom he devoted many years.
In 1952, they moved to Cabool, Missouri, where he farmed and operated a sawmill until 1965 when he moved to Nunn, Colorado, to be near his aged father.
Jay retired in 1980 and moved to California, Missouri, onto the farm of one of the boys he helped to raise. There he assisted with the dairying and spent his spare time fishing, which was his second love.
Jay is survived by a brother, Walter Keenan; two half-brothers, Wilmer Pettit and Sheridan Magnani; two stepbrothers, Paul and Wayne Magnani; a stepsister, Margie Magnani; two foster children, Albert Pettit and Eloise Anderson; four aunts and many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his father, mother, stepfather, Ray Magnani, one foster child, Junior Pettit, wife Leona and infant son.
Jay was buried at Rushville, Missouri.
Jahew McLung Keenan was born to Alexander Keenan and Anna Pettit Keenan on August 15, 1915, on a farm in Cheyenne County, Kansas, south of Benkelman, Nebraska, and passed away March 11, 1983, at home on a farm near California, Missouri. He was 67 years old.
Jay went to school and grew to manhood in Cheyenne County. He married Leona Carr in 1935. They had a son who died in infancy.
They moved to Ohio in 1936 where Jay worked on farms. Jay returned to the Benkelman area in 1939 where he worked on farms until he went into the service in 1942. He served in the medical corps until 1945, then returned to the Benkelman area where he farmed. He married Zila Williams in 1946. Having had bad luck with marriage he decided to help an aunt with three fatherless children raise her family to whom he devoted many years.
In 1952, they moved to Cabool, Missouri, where he farmed and operated a sawmill until 1965 when he moved to Nunn, Colorado, to be near his aged father.
Jay retired in 1980 and moved to California, Missouri, onto the farm of one of the boys he helped to raise. There he assisted with the dairying and spent his spare time fishing, which was his second love.
Jay is survived by a brother, Walter Keenan; two half-brothers, Wilmer Pettit and Sheridan Magnani; two stepbrothers, Paul and Wayne Magnani; a stepsister, Margie Magnani; two foster children, Albert Pettit and Eloise Anderson; four aunts and many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his father, mother, stepfather, Ray Magnani, one foster child, Junior Pettit, wife Leona and infant son.
Jay was buried at Rushville, Missouri.
Printed in the Benkelman, NE Post, March 1983
Jahew McLung Keenan was born to Alexander Keenan and Anna Pettit Keenan on August 15, 1915, on a farm in Cheyenne County, Kansas, south of Benkelman, Nebraska, and passed away March 11, 1983, at home on a farm near California, Missouri. He was 67 years old.
Jay went to school and grew to manhood in Cheyenne County. He married Leona Carr in 1935. They had a son who died in infancy.
They moved to Ohio in 1936 where Jay worked on farms. Jay returned to the Benkelman area in 1939 where he worked on farms until he went into the service in 1942. He served in the medical corps until 1945, then returned to the Benkelman area where he farmed. He married Zila Williams in 1946. Having had bad luck with marriage he decided to help an aunt with three fatherless children raise her family to whom he devoted many years.
In 1952, they moved to Cabool, Missouri, where he farmed and operated a sawmill until 1965 when he moved to Nunn, Colorado, to be near his aged father.
Jay retired in 1980 and moved to California, Missouri, onto the farm of one of the boys he helped to raise. There he assisted with the dairying and spent his spare time fishing, which was his second love.
Jay is survived by a brother, Walter Keenan; two half-brothers, Wilmer Pettit and Sheridan Magnani; two stepbrothers, Paul and Wayne Magnani; a stepsister, Margie Magnani; two foster children, Albert Pettit and Eloise Anderson; four aunts and many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his father, mother, stepfather, Ray Magnani, one foster child, Junior Pettit, wife Leona and infant son.
Jay was buried at Rushville, Missouri.
Jahew McLung Keenan was born to Alexander Keenan and Anna Pettit Keenan on August 15, 1915, on a farm in Cheyenne County, Kansas, south of Benkelman, Nebraska, and passed away March 11, 1983, at home on a farm near California, Missouri. He was 67 years old.
Jay went to school and grew to manhood in Cheyenne County. He married Leona Carr in 1935. They had a son who died in infancy.
They moved to Ohio in 1936 where Jay worked on farms. Jay returned to the Benkelman area in 1939 where he worked on farms until he went into the service in 1942. He served in the medical corps until 1945, then returned to the Benkelman area where he farmed. He married Zila Williams in 1946. Having had bad luck with marriage he decided to help an aunt with three fatherless children raise her family to whom he devoted many years.
In 1952, they moved to Cabool, Missouri, where he farmed and operated a sawmill until 1965 when he moved to Nunn, Colorado, to be near his aged father.
Jay retired in 1980 and moved to California, Missouri, onto the farm of one of the boys he helped to raise. There he assisted with the dairying and spent his spare time fishing, which was his second love.
Jay is survived by a brother, Walter Keenan; two half-brothers, Wilmer Pettit and Sheridan Magnani; two stepbrothers, Paul and Wayne Magnani; a stepsister, Margie Magnani; two foster children, Albert Pettit and Eloise Anderson; four aunts and many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his father, mother, stepfather, Ray Magnani, one foster child, Junior Pettit, wife Leona and infant son.
Jay was buried at Rushville, Missouri.
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