Winifred Estelle Fitzgerald
1883 - 1976 (92 years)
Generation: 1
1. Winifred Estelle Fitzgerald was born on 13 Dec 1883 in Stephenson County, Illinois; died on 18 Oct 1976 in Superior, Nuckolls County, Nebraska; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Superior, Nuckolls County, Nebraska. Notes:
Winifred Estelle McKeown, one of four children of James and Betsy Allard Fitzgerald, was born on a farm near Lena, Illinois, December 13, 1883. She passed away in Superior, Nebraska, October 17, 1976, at the age of 92 years, 10 months and four days.
As a small child, Winifred moved with her parents to a farm near Webber, Kansas. She grew up and was educated in Jewell County and attended Jr. College in Omaha.
June 6, 1906, Winifred was married in Superior to Ross McKeown. To this union two children were born. Winifred and Ross lived for short time in Fairfield and then made their home in Superior, where she lived the rest of her life.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Ross, who passed away in 1937; one brother and two sisters.
Survivors include her son, Kenneth of Los Osos, California; daughter, Joy (Mrs. H.W. Blackstone) of Durango, Colorado; two grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Funeral services were held from the McGrergue–Price Funeral Home Chapel on Wednesday, October 20, at 2 p.m. Rev. Marion Knoell officiated. Burial was in the Evergreen Cemetery, Superior. Dan McKeown, Keith McKeown, Tom McKeown, Roland Wages, Glenn Platt and Fay Vestal were casketbearers.
The Nelson Gazette (Nelson, NE), Thursday, October 28, 1976; pg. 8
Buried:
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Section 3, Lot 31Winifred married Ross Arnold McKeown on 6 Jun 1906 in Superior, Nuckolls County, Nebraska. Ross (son of Alexander McKeown and Elizabeth J. Barclay) was born on 6 Jun 1884 in Kansas; died on 29 Sep 1937 in Superior, Nuckolls County, Nebraska; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Superior, Nuckolls County, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:- Kenneth Earl McKeown was born on 29 Jul 1910 in Superior, Nuckolls County, Nebraska; died on 7 Jan 1997 in Greenville, Green County, Tennessee; was buried in Andrew Jackson National Cemetery, Greeneville, Green County, Tennessee.
- Edith Joy McKeown was born on 19 May 1914 in Nebraska; died on 5 Nov 2005; was buried in Greenmount Cemetery, Durango, La Plata County, Colorado.