OBIT: John J. KENNY, 1940, Sand Patch, Somerset County, PA

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JOHN J. KENNY

  John J. Kenny, aged 70, a native of Sand Patch, collapsed at the wheel of his 
car while parking it at 4639 Forbes Street, Pittsburgh, late Sunday afternoon, 
and was taken to a nearby physician's office, where he died shortly after of 
cerebral hemorrhage.  Mr. Kenny, his wife, Blanche, and his sister-in-law, Mrs. 
Pauline Reilly, of 209 North Craig Street, were returning from a Sunday outing.
  Mr. Kenny was well known by the older inhabitants of Meyersdale, having for a 
number of years resided in Sand Patch, where his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John 
Kenny, located during the time that the old B. & O. tunnel was being 
constructed, where Mr. Kenny died many years ago, and Mrs. Kenny some years 
later.
  Mr. Kenny acquired the art of telegraphy in the office at Sand Patch, and in 
his earlier life he worked in that department of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway 
service.  Some years ago he located in Pittsburgh, and entered the employ of one 
of the prominent oil companies as an operator on the company's transit lines.  
As the result of his careful and painstaking attention to business one promotion 
followed another until at the time of his retirement on pension he was a high-
ranking official of the company.
  Surviving are his widow, Blanche (Reilly) Kenny, and an adopted daughter.  He 
was preceded in death by one brother, Michael Kenny, who was also an operator 
and train dispatcher in the service of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and two 
sisters, Mary, wife of John H. Altmiller, Pittsburgh, and Miss Ella Kenny.
  The funeral was held Wednesday from the late residence of the deceased in the 
Fairfax Apartments, Fifth Avenue and Craig Street, Pittsburgh, with solemn high 
mass of requiem at St. Paul's Cathedral.
  Mr. Kenny was a man of unusual talent in his several lines of endeavor, and 
his many friends here offer their deepest sympathy for the bereaved widow and 
other relatives.

Meyersdale Republican, August 8, 1940