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- Requiem Mass Sung For Mrs. Lena McKeown Today
Rosary was said in the Newton funeral home here at 8:00 o’clock Wednesday evening for Mrs. Lena Moore McKeown, 74, resident of Billings since the opening of the Cherokee Strip, who died early Monday afternoon in a Blackwell hospital.
Mrs. McKeown had been a patient in the Blackwell General hospital since November 9.
Requiem High Mass was sung at 10:00 o’clock a.m. today in the Sacred Heart church in Billings by Father Elmer Robnett, pastor of st. Joseph’s Catholic church of Tonkawa.
She was born September 14, 1881, in Axtell, Kan., and came to Noble county when the Cherokee Strip was opened September 16, 1893. Her parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Menihan, homesteaded east of Billings, where she grew to womanhood.
She was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic church of Billings and the XYZ women’s club. Her husband preceded her in death several years ago.
Survivors include a brother, Edwin Menihan, Billings; a sister, Mrs. J.R. Moody of Los Angeles, California, and three nieces and three nephews.
Interment was in the Catholic cemetery in Billings under the direction of the Newton funeral home. Pallbearers were Harry Ehlers, Hal Jones, Joe Klufa, John McCluskey, Theodore Adreance and John O’Grady.
The Billings News, Billings, Oklahoma. Thursday, 23 February 1956.
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- LKH note:
Lena was first married to Richard Moore (1861-1920).
She is buried beside him under the surname Moore.
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1881 - 1956 (74 years)
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