Ruth Keeney |
| Posted 2008-05-05 by Maurine |
| Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, Arizona - November 27, 1953 HOST OF FRIENDS MOURN PASSING OF MISS RUTH KEENEY Many friends of Miss Ruth Keeney gathered at the Wickenburg Chapel at 2 o’clock last Saturday afternoon to pay their final respects to a young woman who made a vain but gallant struggle against long illness. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. William Barker of the first Baptist Church and burial took place in the Wickenburg Cemetery. Miss Keeney, Chief Operator at the local exchange of the telephone company since late in 1949, was a charming, friendly and gracious person who had made many warm friendships since moving to Wickenburg in 1946. She was efficient and helpful to her duties at the telephone company and it is quite probable she had many more friends than she was aware of; those whose only contact with her was over the telephone lines. Born in Winslow A native Arizona, Miss Keeney was born June 1, 1921, in Winslow, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. R.E. Keeney, Sr. She attended the Winslow schools and upon her graduation from the high school there in 1939, she entered the service of the telephone company. She later moved to the Phoenix office and transferred here as an operator in 1946. In 1949 she was promoted to Chief Operator. Miss Keeney passed away at 7 p.m. Thursday, November 19, at Community Hospital here where she had been a patient since October 24. She had previously been too ill to work regularly and was hospitalized previously since May. The Survivors Surviving are one sister and three brothers: Mrs. Jessamine Kluting of Las Cruces, N.M.; Kenneth C. Keeney of Whittier, Calif.; Robert E. Keeney, Jr., of Albuquerque and Ralph Keeney of Millington, Tenn. Two aunts also survive: Mrs. Bernice West and Mrs. Janetta Newman, both of Winslow. The sister, brother Robert and two aunts came here for the funeral services. Pallbearers were George Hershkowits, Mack Dowdy, Larry Fields, Claude Workman, Coney Orosco and Gene Garfield. |
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