Subject: Mom information, freestyle
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 17:50:25 -0500
From: Ed Prucha
Some Mom [and some Ed in square brackets] musings about the family:
Nee-nee (Nora Meehan Brennan) had 5 sisters and one brother:
Henry Meehan married Minnie McBride and they had 7 children.
(Minnie had a sister named Josephine)
- Maryann was killed on Fontenelle Blvd. in a car accident in her teens.
- John committed suicide by jumping off a bridge, perhaps the South Omaha bridge.
- Catherine Talley went to St. Catherine's nursing school.
- Eileen went to St. Catherine's nursing school.
- Betty Thorpe.
- Margaret Morran was killed on North 30th Street when someone tried to steal her purse.
- son Jim Morran (used to work with Ed at Beacom Hardware)
- daughter Loretta
- Patrick, (married and with a family somewhere).
Loretta (Talcott?) lived in Yakima, Washington, ran a musical instrument business with her husband. Nee-nee took Aunt Ta and Mom to Yakima on the train when they were children. Aunt Ta tells a story about Mom getting sick, and Nee-nee staying on the train with her, while Aunt Ta was taken by some other train passenger or passengers to see some city (check with Aunt Ta for details).
Mamie (Mary Ellen) Keyser [ she was a housekeeper when I [Ed] knew her, in some very nice house near Nee and Pa, and liked to stop off at the Nifty Bar on Saddle Creek, to have a little snort now and then. ]
Peg (Margaret) died of breast cancer in Ed and Alice Dugdale's home, and Mom took care of her while she was dying. She had owned a house on the other side of Elmwood Park. She had a long-time boyfriend, Art Ainsworth, who was a dapper dresser.
Madelaine, Mom thinks that she was married and that she died at a young age.
Alice (Nee-nee's youngest sister) and Ed Dugdale had two daughters: Colleen (Mom thinks she died in or near Hemet, California) and Gloria Rochford, who lives in Florida.
Clara Mary Martinek (Dodge?, Nebraska) Prucha [ married George Prucha, who came from Bohemia when he was 21. ]
She had at least two brothers
- John Martinek married Marguerite (still alive in Scribner). Could her maiden name be Lenneman, we wonder? Marguerite had at least one brother, Frank.
- Joseph, who Mom thinks married Julie [ who lived to be 99, and was in constant touch with Grandma until Grandma died they wrote and spoke Bohemian to each other, as well as English ] Julie had a daughter, Viola, who married Earl Moore
Mom thinks someone named Rosie married one of Grandma's brothers, either Joseph or another brother.
Pa (John Brennan) had two brothers who died in infancy [ both named Edward,I think Aunt Agnes told me, and two sisters. ]
Agnes Brennan, who was the oldest, and never married. [ I remember learning Chinese Checkers with her when she lived on Cuming Street with Mrs. Yoder; and learning Canasta with her when she lived with Mrs. Talbot in Dundee; Mrs. Talbot's claim to fame was that she used to holler at Henry Fonda when he cut across her back yard on his way to school; then when Mrs. Tolbert died, Aunt Agnes moved to her own apartment across the street from St. Cecelia's Cathedral, where she had her stroke on the stairs while doing laundry. ]
Mary Zita married Ed Milota, who was an executive at US Rubber Company.
[ Aunt Agnes took Bob Osterman and me on a trip around the Great Lakes on a cruise vessel. We took the train from Omaha to Chicago, stayed with the Milotas going and coming. ]
Nee-nee an Pa and Mom and Aunt Ta lived with "Gran," Pa's mother, at 115 No. 35 Avenue, Omaha, before Nee-nee and Pa had the house at 3340 No 47 Avenue built. Mom and Ed and Aunt Ta and Jack lived with "Gran," Pa's mother, while Dad and Uncle Fritz were in World War II.