Obit: Keating, Irene (? - 1957)

Contact: Stan

Email: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Keating Murray, Conron, Shelton

----Source: THORP COURIER (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 02/28/1957

Keating, Irene (? - 25 FEB 1957)

Mrs. Irene Keating, 2615 Lincoln Rd., widow of the late Joseph H. Keating, former manager of the Wis. Telephone Co. in Kenosha, died at St. Catherine’s Hospital Monday morning following a two-week illness.

The daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. James Murray, she was born in Somers Township.  She received her education in the schools of Kenosha, the College of Commerce and later attended Whitewater State Teachers College.  A teacher by profession, she was the first director of the Open Air School, now the Orthopedic school, and later taught at Bain and Columbus schools.

Following her marriage to Joseph H. Keating in 1908, she resided in Janesville, Mayville, Stoughton and Madison, Wis.  From 1917 to 1930, she returned to Kenosha, where her husband was manager of the phone company until his death March 27, 1950.

Following her husband’s death she resumed teaching and for three years taught at St. Mary’s parochial school, retiring last June.  She was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, the Schubert Club, Past Presidents Club and the PTA, and the Catholic Women’s Club.

Survivors include two sons and a daughter, Joseph M. Thorp, Wis., Robert H. Wausaukee, Wis.; and Mrs. John Conron, Kenosha; three brothers and a sister, John C. Murray, Beloit, Wis.; Arthur J. Murray, Milwaukee; James P. Murray, Kenosha, Wis.; and Mrs. Alice Shelton, Paddock Lake; and 15 grandchildren.