- Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at 9 o'clock in the Catholic Church of the Nativity at Dubuque IA for Charles Keenan 43, of Dubuque, formerly of Stockton who died Wednesday evening from injuries incurred a few hours before while he was working as a switchman in the Chicago Great Western Railroad yards there. The body will be brought to Holy Cross Cemetery for internment.
The accident happened when Mr. Keenan was hanging onto the side of the first box car of a string of three that was being pushed by a switch engine. The car jumped the track and he was crushed between it and the wall of a building.
Mr. Keenan was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Keenan Sr. and was born in Savanna in 1896. He attended St. Johns parochial school and the Savanna high school. Mr. Keenan had been employed by the Great Western railroad for the past 15 years and previous to that was employed for a few years by the Milwaukee Road in Savanna.
Surviving are his widow, the former Josephine Clancy of Stockton, one daughter Patricia Jean , five sister, Mrs. Rose Loken, Mrs. Jesse Brock, and Mrs. Perry Martin all of Savanna, Mrs. Clement Vogler of Chicago and Mrs. George Thompson of Detroit MI. Three brother John and William of Savanna and Paul of Chicago.
Freeport Journal 18 August 1939
