John S. Kelleher (1990)

KELLEHER, RICE, GOLAN, ROONEY, MCLAUGHLIN, SCHAEFER, CONNER, HATEY

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 8/23/2006 at 12:06:47

Des Moines Register
December 4, 1990

JOHN S. KELLEHER

John S. Kelleher, 67, of 1305 Merle Hay Road died of an aneurysm Tuesday at Mercy Hospital Medical Center. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at St. Theresa's Catholic Church, of which he was a member. Burial will be in Winterset Cemetery.

Mr. Kelleher, an Army veteran of World War II, was born in Des Moines and returned in 1960 after 14 years in Spokane, Wash. He retired in 1988 as an area supervisor for Meadow Gold Dairy and since retirement was president of JAAK Corp.

Among survivors are his wife, Annabelle; a son, William of Houston; two daughters, Ann Rice of Los Gatos, Calif., and Coleen Kelleher of Windsor Heights; two brothers, Michael of Des Moines and Peter of Houston; seven sisters, Gretchen Wilson of Aurora, Colo., Sue Golan of Hopkins, Minn., Rita Rooney of Bondurant, Agnes McLaughlin of Cumming, Elizabeth Schaefer of Baltimore and Theresa Conner and Mary Ellen Hatey, both of Des Moines; and nine grandchildren.

Friends may call after 2 p.m. today at Westover Funeral Home, where a vigil service will be at 7 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Theresa's Foundation.