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Charles Kenneth Kean

28 Jul 1917 – 10 Aug 1977

Birth28 Jul 1917
Death10 Aug 1977
CemeteryAbilene Cemetery
Abilene , Dickinson County , Kansas , USA
Added byJKK on 23 Jul 2009
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23409614

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Son of Edward Eli Kean and Flora Ellen Hastings He married Edna May Gish 14 Jul 1937 Topeka, Shawnee, Ks. He worked for Duckwalls 5 an 10 cent store. Started as a manager and worked up to District Superintendent. Was a Mason and Shriner. He was in the Navy during WWII. He passed on the Huntingtons gene. He died of heart disease. 1925 Kansas Census Grant, Dickinson, Ks E E Kean 51 KS Frora E Kean 38 Ks Kenneth C Kean 7 KS Donald E Kean 4 Ks 1920 Grant, Dickinson, Ks E E Kean 44 Ks Flora E Kean 32 Ks Earl D Hinton 11 Ks Dortha M Hinton 9 Ks [6] Keneth Kean 2 Ks [2 6/12] 1930 Grant, Dickinson, Ks Edward E Kean 55 Flora Kean 42 Kenneth Kean 12 Donald Kean 9 1940 Lamar, Powers, Co Kenneth Kean 22 Edna Kean 20 Colean Kean 2 Veteran Affairs Name: Charles Kean Gender: Male Birth Date: 28 Jul 1917 Death Date: 10 Aug 1977 SSN: 510033042 Branch 1: NAVY Enlistment Date 1: 13 Feb 1945 Release Date 1: 18 Oct 1945 We were living in Larned Ks From daughter: When we were young we were young we would spend every holiday at Grandmother Keans. All they family would come and we had large family dinners around a large round Table. We would get together with all the cousins. On memorial day we would go to all the cemeteries and lay flowers on the graves. Most of the family, both Mother and Fathers, are buried in Dickinson County. Then we would have a picnic at the park. We always had watermelon and homemade icecream. We would also take turns spending time with Grandmother Flora Kean in the summer. One Christmas we were going to Abilene from Colby, had a flat tire. One of the packages went flying out in the snowstorm. On the way home we found we found the package up against a fence. At Grandma's, I remember the Oak Telephone, Party line, Icebox on the screened porch, milking the cows, very large garden, home churned butter. wood cooking stove, grandpa Kean making pancackes in the morning, flour sacks that were of different designs and we would pick out one that you wanted to use for a dress, gathering eggs, killing the chickens for Sunday dinner. climbing a huge tree to the top(Joy and Jan did this), milk cans and a truck that came by to pick up milk, ice sign in window so iceman would bring ice for icebox, walnut trees and childrens job to crack and get meat out of them, She belonged to " Rebecca's" and would dress up for meetings, she later went into a Odd Fellows/Rebecca retirement home that was outside of Manhattan. Kenneth took care of her affairs and later Barbara. Eds family lived down the road and his family lived on land between them and Grandfathers. We would walk down to see them in the evenings. On the other side lived a woman named Swanger. Grandmother called her Swanger and Swanger called Granmother Kean(Kane). The name was pronounced "Kane" untill World War II although in places still Kane. Grandmother was a midwife and she helped the town doctor a lot. Kolean was delivered at Grandmothers, the rest of us in a hospital, three of us in Abilene and Cheryl in Great Bend.

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