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Dollie Kinnan

23 Dec 1882 – 24 Jan 1951

Birth23 Dec 1882
Death24 Jan 1951
CemeteryColumbus Cemetery
Columbus , Platte County , Nebraska , USA
Added byShirley (Bruhn) Martys on 31 Jul 2008
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28678871

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The Columbus Daily Telegram , January 24, 1951 KINNAN-- Miss Dollie Kinnan Dies Today in Lincoln Hospital Miss Dollie Kinnan, 68, long-time resident of Columbus, died early this morning in a Lincoln hospital. She had been under medical treatment there for the past eight weeks. A resident of Columbus for the past 45 years, Miss Kinnan was a member of the local Daughters of Union Veterans. She was also a member of the United Brethren church Shelby. Miss Kinnan was born Dec. 23, 1882, in Polk county near Shelby. She is survived by: three sisters, M. Alberta Kinnan, Jessie A. Kinnan and Mrs. Alice Ellsworth, all of Columbus; one brother Joseph R. Kinnan of Forest Grove, Ore., as well as several nieces and nephews. The body is at the Wadlow mortuary, Lincoln, and will be brought to the Gass funeral home here. Funeral arrangements are pending. The Columbus Daily Telegram , January 25, 1951 KINNAN-- Funeral Services - Funeral services for Miss Dollie Kinnan, 68, who died Wednesday in a Lincoln hospital, will be held Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at the Federated chruch. The Rev. Franklin Wales will officiate and burial will be made in the family mausoleum in the Co__________. The Columbus Daily Telegram , January 29, 1951 KINNAN-- Funeral Services For Dollie Kinnan Held Saturday Funeral services for Miss Dollie Kinnan, 68, whose death occurred in a Lincoln hospital last Wednesday, were conducted by the Rev. Franklin Wales at the Federated church at 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Mrs. Jerome Schroeder and Mrs. Elmer Miessler sang "Lead Kindly Light" and "Rock of Ages." Mrs. Ted Haldiman was at the organ. The bearers were Eugene Tredway, F.A. Pickens, Wilken Umland, Wallace and Willis McMeekin and LeRoy Poeffel. The body was committed to the family mausoleum in Columbus cemetery. A daguther of the late Joseph and Martha Jane Kinnan, early residents of Polk county, she was born at Shelby, Dec. 23, 1882. She attended the public schools there and finished at Midland college. She also took geological and geophysical work at the University of Oklahoma. In later years she and her sister, Miss Jessie Kinnan, acquired oil and gas leases on a large acreage of land. In 1907 she and her sister, Jessie, moved with their mother to Columbus, and continued to reside at 2820 Eighteenth street throughout the years after their mother's death. Miss Kinnan traced her family history back to the English crown of the mid-fifteenth century period, being a descendant of the Warwick line. She possessed the mural crown as the family escutcheon. She was a charter member of the Columbus chapter of Daughters of Union Veterans. Her hobby was travel, and she traveled extensively. She and her sister, Jessie, spent the last three winters in Hawaii, and had planned to go there this winter but she became ill last fall. She leaves three sisters, Jessie Kinnan, Mrs. Alice Kinnan Ellsworth, and Mrs Alberta Kinnan Groves, all of Columbus; one brother, Joseph R. Kinnan of Forest Grove, Ore.; seven nephews, Kelly Kinnan of Lingle, Wyo, Francis Ellsworth of Lincoln, Wayne Kinnan of Shelby, who were here to attend the funeral, Maurice Kinnan of Forest Grove, Ore., A.B. Kinnan of Cody, Wyo.; D.S. Kinnan of Ranier, Ore; and Glen Ellsworth of San Diego; two nieces, Mrs. Hortense Christian of Denver and Mrs. Hazel Watson of Boston; and three great-nieces and great-nephews.

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