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Barbara Cecelia Zetocha Keck

19 Apr 1903 – 7 Dec 1965

Birth19 Apr 1903
Death7 Dec 1965
CemeteryGrand Island Cemetery
Grand Island , Hall County , Nebraska , USA
Added byBJ Rosenberg on 31 May 2019
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42875100

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Barbara is my maternal grandmother. She is my name-sake Mrs. Barbara Keck, 62, of 420 West Division, who was named Grand Island's "Humanitarian of the Year" in 1961, died Tuesday of a ruptured abdominal aorta while in an Omaha hospital. The wife of Thomas "William" Keck, she became ill a week ago and was taken to the Omaha hospital. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 am Friday at St. Mary's Cathedral. A requiem mass will be offered, follwed by burial in Grand Island Cemetery. The rosary will be recited at 7 pm Thursday at the Livingston-Sondermann Funeral Home. Friends may call until 9 pm Thursday. Mrs. Keck was born (Barbora) Barbara Zetocha on April 19, 1903, in Horni Becva, Czechoslovakia. She came with her parents, Sylvester Joseph Zetocha and Veronika (Bartek) Zetocha, to Valparaiso. Mr. and Mrs. Keck were married Nov. 23, 1920, in Lincoln and lived at Valparaiso until moving to Grand Island in 1933. Mrs. Keck left school at an early age to help support the family that included nine brothers and sisters. After her marriage , she took some of her younger brothers and sisters to her home. She cared for her father until his death in 1953. During World War II she provided room for wives and children of Air Corps men stationed here. When her daughter, Mrs. Dorothy McMillan, Lincoln, became ill she went to the McMillan home and cared for the six children, taking them into her home for a while after their mother's death. During all that time, including the raising of her own five children, Mrs. Keck often worked in homes, cleaning and ironing. She bacame Grand Island's first woman mail carrier during World War II. Mrs. Keck was a member of the parish of St. Mary's Cathedral. She was affiliated with the Altar Society. She is survived by her husband, three children, William Charles (Shirley) Keck and Mrs. (William) Camelia "Joy" Anderson Robertson of Grand Island, and Louis Dean (Patricia) Keck of Omaha; Three brothers, Louis Zetocha, Omaha, Joseph Zetocha, Lincoln, and Sylvester Joseph Zetocha, Jr., Red Bluffs, California; six sisters, Mrs. Frances Kubena, Hibbing, Minn., Mrs. Julia Rogers and Mrs. Ann Phillips, Los Angeles, California, Mrs. Vera Gates, Des Moines, Iowa, Mrs. Mary Jezek, Omaha, and Mrs. Elva Magnuson, Culver City, California; 24 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by two daughters, Mrs. Barbara "Lucille" (William) Robertson, Grand Island, and Dorothy Elizabeth (Alex) McMillan, Lincoln, and her parents.

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