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BeschrijvingBob Feeney (1901-1975) circa 1960.jpg	English: The Early Bird by Bob Feeney in the Quad-City Times of Davenport, Iowa on 19 December 1962
Datum	19 december 1962
Bron	https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19228616/robert-e-feeney/
Auteur	Bob Feeney  (1901–1975)     Aliassen Robert Feeney Beschrijving Amerikaans columnist Geboorte- en sterfdatum 28 juni 1901  30 november 1975  Geboorte- en sterfplaats Davenport MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center Bibliografische informatie : Q105635761 creator QS:P170,Q105635761
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By BOB FEENEY The Feeney Family Tree So many people have asked us if, and how, we were related to R. Emmett Feeney, whose funeral will be held this morning, that a little explanation of local branches of the Feeney family tree might be in order. or Lmmett was not my brother or cousin, as many thought, but my uncle. OUR GRANDFATHER, Mich-ael Feeney, who operated a coal hauling business in the days when coal was hauled here direct from nearby Illinois fields for local delivery, had a family of 10 boys and two girls. The oldest was John A. Sr., grocery store founder. His sons Her-bert L., Loras and Harold (Pete) still operate the store while John A. Jr., is a realtor with the Foster firm. Our own father, Thomas J., a former Times advertising manager who has been dead 38 years, was second oldest. The family includes your Early Bird, Bill, Don, Mark and Msgr, Tom. You will note there were no girls in either of these families. In the original Michael Feeney family other sons were Jim, Joe, Frank, Charlie, Ray, Ralph, Emmett and his twin brother, Louis. All are dead but Joe, a retired railroad engineer, and Louis, who works in the Rock Ts'and Lines freight offices. The girls were Mary, who became a nun and died in the East, and Mrs. Gertrude Kennedy, of Omaha, widow of a onetime A.T.&T. chief here. EMMETT AND LOUIS were friendly foes in frequent boxing exhibitions in their youth; later they sold peanuts and scorecards at the old Three-I League baseball park on West Third Street. They married sisters Anne and Bess Carlin and as identical twins whom neither teachers nor most other people could tell apart in their childhood seemed to have a sort of psychic understanding of and sympathy with each others thoughts. Emmett, always good humored, kept a loose but always effective rein on a fairly large family, did a lot of work for civic and religious organizations, was one of the most popular members of the far-flung family we have described here, and cheerfully carried on his work as a salesman without complaint through a number of years of illness. There are quite a few other Feeneys in Davenport including sons or grandsons of the ones mentioned here and many not of our immediate family but the fact the family ran mostly to boys tended to keep the name a c t i v e rather than being lost under such cognomens as O'Brien, Schwartz and Petersen as would have been the case if the tribe had been nearly all. girls instead of boys. THINGS DO change. About 20 years ago the average man thought it would be wonderful to be able to retire and run a chicken farm. "

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