George Kennebeck, 1944 Obituary

KENNEBECK

Posted By: David Reineke (email)
Date: 6/9/2011 at 17:52:50

(Carroll Times Herald, 6 March 1944)
Geo. Kennebeck Dies Saturday, Ill 5 Months
George Kennebeck, retired local manager of the Green Bay Lumber Company, died at his home, 120 North Main Street at 7 o’clock Saturday evening. Mr. Kennebeck, who had been in failing health for the last five months, had been bedfast for the past two weeks. Death claimed him at the age of 82 years.

Funeral services are to be at 9:30 Tuesday morning at St. Joseph’s Church, with Rt. Rev. Monsignor P. T. Lynch offering the requiem mass. Burial will be in the parish cemetery.

The body was returned at 3 o’clock this afternoon from the Dietrich Funeral Home to the family residence, to rest there until the time of the rites.

Mr. Kennebeck, a native of Illinois, had lived in Carroll county seventy-one years. He was born July 15, 1861, in a log house at McHenry, Ill., a son of George and Katherine Kennebeck. Coming to Carroll county at the age of eleven years, his boyhood was spent near Roselle, in which community he attended school.

His marriage to Miss Elizabeth Gleason took place June 30, 1887, at St. Joseph’s Church here, with the Rev. P. J. O’Connor officiating. This was five years before the erection of the stone church in which Mr. and Mrs. Kennebeck attended mass on their golden wedding day in 1937.

Mr. and Mrs. Kennebeck were the parents of five children. Kathleen, the oldest child, died Oct. 2, 1918, on board ship, while on her way to France in Red Cross service.

Mr. Kennebeck leaves his wife, three sons, Col. George R. Kennebeck, Washington, D. C.; Col. Marvin E. Kennebeck, San Antonio, Tex.; and Dr. Merlin J. Kennebeck, Muskegon, Mich., one daughter, Mrs. Tom J. Finnegan (Irma), Carroll; six grandchildren; one brother, B. J. Kennebeck of Roselle, and one sister, Mrs. George Hoffman of Wilmont, Minn. He was one of a family of nine children.

TO PRAY ROSARY
The rosary, led by Monsignor Lynch, will be prayed at the family home at 8 o’clock this evening. Members of the Holy Name Society of St. Joseph’s parish will attend in a group

A longtime member of St. Joseph’s Church, Mr. Kennebeck also belonged to the Holy Name Society of the parish.

About twelve years ago Mr. Kennebeck retired from employment with the Green Bay Lumber Company, which he had served for thirty-three years. During the last twelve years of that time he had been manager, and prior thereto, yard manager.

Mr. Kennebeck belonged to the Daily Times Herald Three Quarter Century Club.