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Captain Thomas F McKeon, Virginia's father
(wearing the white hat), was the first fire
captain in Maspeth before Queens was annexed into
the City of New York in 1898. He died
of smoke inhalation suffered from fighting a
fire.
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McKeon family in a picture taken at Anna McKeon's house
182 Gleane Street, Elmhurst, LI about 1929.
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Mary and
Virginia McKeon on May's wedding day to James Ronaghan
in 1920.
May died of cancer in 1926 and is buried in the
Ronaghan plot in Calvary Cemetery, Queens NY ===>> |
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Daniel
McKeon was the youngest son in the McKeon family.
When World War II broke out, he entered the army
air force, where he taught the mechanical aspects of
aircraft maintenance at Keesler Field, Mississippl. After the
war he moved to Denver, Colorado, where he died in
1990 ===>> |
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<<=== Florence
McKeon (1905 - 1994), the widow of Thomas McKeon
(1902 - 1962) and mother of
Arthur McKeon with Richard Foy. Click on
picture to see more photos of Florence.
photo 20 June 1987
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Anna McKeon (center) is the daughter of Daniel
McKeon and Dorothy McAuliffe. She is bookended by
her son Travis, 26, and her daughter, Trisha, 29.
Click on picture to see more
photos of this McKeon family. Photo
taken 2002
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Thomas McKeon,
the son of Thomas and Anna McKeon, married
Florence Byrnes and they lived in Douglaston, New
York ===>>
photo found in
Florence McKeons belongings after her death |
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After Tom's
death in 1962, Florence relocated to Miami
Florida, but visited New York often. Here
she poses with Bridget Foy at Dwight Street,
Poughkeepsie NY with Bridget Foy in 1978 ===>>
photo by Richard Foy |
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<<=== Tom
McKeon was a taciturn person. Very few
photos of him exist without being dressed in
shirt, tie and suit coat.
photo found in
Florence McKeons belongings after her death. |
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<<=== Although
Tom McKeon worked with the Long Island Lighting
Company, his hobby was electronics and high
fidelity. Click on photo for further
details.
photo found in
Florence McKeons belongings after her death |
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The McKeons
had no children of their own, but adopted Arthur.
This photo of Tom, Florence, Lisa (Art's wife) and
Arthur was probably taken in Miami where Arthur
relocated after WW II ===>>
photo found in
Florence McKeons belongings after her death |
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Florence
Byrnes in a studio portrait taken when she was 5
1/2, about 1910 ===>>
photo found in
Florence McKeons belongings after her death |
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<<=== Dorothy McKeon,
daughter of Eugene and Alice McKeon, married Alan
Jacoby in Fall 1988 |
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Lillian Byrnes was Florence's mother.
Florence remembered that her father was the
superintendent of several apartment houses in the
Bronx, near 219th Street, now called Gun Hill
Road.
photo found in
Florence McKeons belongings after her death |
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