William H. Killen (ca. 1835-1917)

KILLEN, LUCAS

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 2/16/2022 at 14:24:55

From Nevada Evening Journal January 30, 1917 (page 1)

OBITUARY

WM. KILLEN

There was buried at Nevada on January 21 the body of William Killen, which was brought here by two sons from his recent home at Norfolk, Nebraska. Forty years and more ago Mr. Killen was running a restaurant and bake-shop on the east side of Linn street about where the Flater meat market now is, and he continued in business there until the fire which started in his shop and cleared out the east side of the street in December of 1887. After his disaster he moved away, and we had entirely lost track of him until our attention was called to the fact of his death and burial. His first wife died while he was living here*, and it is by her side that he is now buried. Her married here also for the second time*; but his second wife preceded him also by several years*. Of his elder children surviving is his son Wallace, who long lived in Des Moines and is now living at Los Angeles. Of the second family were the two sons who accompanied his remains to Nevada. Mr. Killen was 82 years of age, and he was much esteemed here in the days of his residence thirty and forty years ago.

*SUBMITTER'S NOTE: The first wife of William Killen, Margaret "Maggie" (Lucas) Killen, died on 24 November 1884 in Nevada, Story County, Iowa.

William H. Killen, son of Robert Killen and Margaret Hudson, married (1) Margaret Lucas ca. 1870 and (2) Minnie Lucas, daughter of Charles Lucas and Mary Jane Graham, on 15 July 1885 in Nevada, Story County, Iowa.

The statement that his second wife preceded him is not true: Minnie (Lucas) Killen died in 1939 and is buried with her sons in the West Mausoleum of Grand View Memorial Park & Crematory in Glendale, Los Angeles County, California.