Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT); 27 Dec 1947, p. 5
Frank Kenna, 73, Dies in New Haven
Funeral of President of Marlin Firearms Company to be Monday
New Haven, Dec. 26 - (AP) - Frank Kenna, 73, lawyer and president-treasurer of the Marlin Firearms Corporation, died tonight at the Hospital of St. Raphael.
Admitted to the hospital two days before Thanksgiving, he was said to have recovered sufficiently to permit spending Christmas at home with his family.
He returned to the hospital today and suffered a second attack tonight.
Kenna was a native of New Haven, a graduate of the Yale Law School in the class of 1905, a former newspaper man, a former New Haven alderman, and was a member of the Connecticut Legislature from 1911 to 1913.
At the time of his death, he headed the L.C. Smith Firearms Company at Fulton, N.Y., as well as the Marlin company, was vice president of the American Bank & Trust Company here, and was identified with many other enterprises.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Vertie Kinney Kenna; two daughters, Mrs. Theodore F. Lynch of this city, and Mrs. Edward J. Doonan, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.; three sons, Roger P. Kenna, Harrison, N.Y., and Gilbert P. and Frank J., of this city; a sister, Miss Elizabeth Kenna of Hartford, and several grandchildren.
Funeral services are scheduled for Monday morning with a requiem mass at St. Brendan's Church.
Frank Kenna, 73, Dies in New Haven
Funeral of President of Marlin Firearms Company to be Monday
New Haven, Dec. 26 - (AP) - Frank Kenna, 73, lawyer and president-treasurer of the Marlin Firearms Corporation, died tonight at the Hospital of St. Raphael.
Admitted to the hospital two days before Thanksgiving, he was said to have recovered sufficiently to permit spending Christmas at home with his family.
He returned to the hospital today and suffered a second attack tonight.
Kenna was a native of New Haven, a graduate of the Yale Law School in the class of 1905, a former newspaper man, a former New Haven alderman, and was a member of the Connecticut Legislature from 1911 to 1913.
At the time of his death, he headed the L.C. Smith Firearms Company at Fulton, N.Y., as well as the Marlin company, was vice president of the American Bank & Trust Company here, and was identified with many other enterprises.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Vertie Kinney Kenna; two daughters, Mrs. Theodore F. Lynch of this city, and Mrs. Edward J. Doonan, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.; three sons, Roger P. Kenna, Harrison, N.Y., and Gilbert P. and Frank J., of this city; a sister, Miss Elizabeth Kenna of Hartford, and several grandchildren.
Funeral services are scheduled for Monday morning with a requiem mass at St. Brendan's Church.
Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT); 27 Dec 1947, p. 5
Frank Kenna, 73, Dies in New Haven
Funeral of President of Marlin Firearms Company to be Monday
New Haven, Dec. 26 - (AP) - Frank Kenna, 73, lawyer and president-treasurer of the Marlin Firearms Corporation, died tonight at the Hospital of St. Raphael.
Admitted to the hospital two days before Thanksgiving, he was said to have recovered sufficiently to permit spending Christmas at home with his family.
He returned to the hospital today and suffered a second attack tonight.
Kenna was a native of New Haven, a graduate of the Yale Law School in the class of 1905, a former newspaper man, a former New Haven alderman, and was a member of the Connecticut Legislature from 1911 to 1913.
At the time of his death, he headed the L.C. Smith Firearms Company at Fulton, N.Y., as well as the Marlin company, was vice president of the American Bank & Trust Company here, and was identified with many other enterprises.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Vertie Kinney Kenna; two daughters, Mrs. Theodore F. Lynch of this city, and Mrs. Edward J. Doonan, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.; three sons, Roger P. Kenna, Harrison, N.Y., and Gilbert P. and Frank J., of this city; a sister, Miss Elizabeth Kenna of Hartford, and several grandchildren.
Funeral services are scheduled for Monday morning with a requiem mass at St. Brendan's Church.
Frank Kenna, 73, Dies in New Haven
Funeral of President of Marlin Firearms Company to be Monday
New Haven, Dec. 26 - (AP) - Frank Kenna, 73, lawyer and president-treasurer of the Marlin Firearms Corporation, died tonight at the Hospital of St. Raphael.
Admitted to the hospital two days before Thanksgiving, he was said to have recovered sufficiently to permit spending Christmas at home with his family.
He returned to the hospital today and suffered a second attack tonight.
Kenna was a native of New Haven, a graduate of the Yale Law School in the class of 1905, a former newspaper man, a former New Haven alderman, and was a member of the Connecticut Legislature from 1911 to 1913.
At the time of his death, he headed the L.C. Smith Firearms Company at Fulton, N.Y., as well as the Marlin company, was vice president of the American Bank & Trust Company here, and was identified with many other enterprises.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Vertie Kinney Kenna; two daughters, Mrs. Theodore F. Lynch of this city, and Mrs. Edward J. Doonan, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.; three sons, Roger P. Kenna, Harrison, N.Y., and Gilbert P. and Frank J., of this city; a sister, Miss Elizabeth Kenna of Hartford, and several grandchildren.
Funeral services are scheduled for Monday morning with a requiem mass at St. Brendan's Church.
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