Estella Harkins
1904 - 2002 (97 years)
Generation: 1
1. Estella Harkins was born on 29 May 1904 in Jewell County, Kansas; died on 23 Mar 2002 in Superior, Nuckolls County, Nebraska; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Superior, Nuckolls County, Nebraska. Notes:
Estella M. (Harkins) McKeown, 97, died Saturday, March 23, 2002, at Good Samaritan Center in Superior, Nebraska. She was born in rural Jewell County, Kansas, May 29, 1904, to Charlie and Clema (Good) Harkins.
She attended Pleasant Valley Rural School. June 18, 1924, Estella married Thomas P. McKeown in Clyde, Kansas. They lived and farmed in Jewell County. She cooked at Valley View School. Estella worked hard as a homemaker while raising their family.
She was a member of Webber United Methodist Church for more than 50 years and a member of the United Methodist Women and the Valley View Social Club. She enjoyed crocheting, quilting, her years of cooking at Valley View School, and most of all her family.
Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Tom, on November 20, 1986; an infant daughter, Helen Joy; two sisters, Frieda Langer and Myreen Meyer; and two brothers, Cecil and Jake Harkins.
Survivors include two daughters, Norma B. Bargen and her husband Don of Nora, Nebraska, and Phyllis Hurd of Formoso, Kansas; one son, Keith McKeown and his wife Rosemarie of rural Superior; two brothers, Butler S. Harkins of Oxnard, California, and Jerry Harkins and his wife Gloria of Cortez, Colorado; 10 grandchildren; 13 great grandchildren; and three great great grandchildren.
Services were 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, 2002, at the United Methodist Church in Webber, Kansas, with Revs. Elton Hunter and Robert Elwell officiating. Music was "Ivory Palaces" with Linda Hutchinson as soloist and a congregational hymn, "How Great Thou Art", with Carlita Price as organist. Interment was in Evergreen Cemetery, Superior.
Pallbearers were Mike Hurd, Mark Hurd, Tony Patrick, Tom Bargen, Dan McKeown, and Gail Bartley. Megrue-Price Funeral Home of Superior was in charge of arrangements.
The Nelson Gazette (Nelson, NE), Thursday, April 4, 2002; pg. 9
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Section 1, Lot 91Estella married Thomas Paxton McKeown on 18 Jun 1924 in Clyde, Cloud County, Kansas. Thomas (son of Alexander McKeown and Elizabeth J. Barclay) was born on 30 Jul 1895 in Jewell County, Kansas; died on 20 Nov 1986 in Nuckolls County, Nebraska; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Superior, Nuckolls County, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:- Helen Joy McKeown was born on 11 Mar 1925 in Kansas; died on 28 Aug 1927 in Superior, Nuckolls County, Nebraska; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Superior, Nuckolls County, Nebraska.
- Thomas Keith McKeown was born on 25 May 1927 in Jewell County, Kansas; died on 22 Oct 2020 in Superior, Nuckolls County, Nebraska; was buried in Webber Cemetery, Webber, Jewell County, Kansas.