Frank Kealy Dies Sunday

      Services Tuesday for Longtime Businessman and Civic Leader

Frank Kealy, 86, prominent Hastings businessman and civic leader, died
Sunday  morning at Mary  Lanning Memorial  Hospital following  a short
illness.  Born in West Side,  Ia., he was christened John Francis, but
was known as Frank throughout his life.

He moved to Hastings with his parents 80 years ago and for the past 56
years was engaged in the  construction business.  He started the Kealy
Construction Company  in 1910  and was active  in the  construction of
scores of  Hastings buildings  during his career.   He was  a longtime
horse fancier and did some racing with harness horses.

CIVIC WORK

He was a former member of  the Hastings Housing Authority and a member
of the board of trustees of Parkview Cemetery.

Kealy served with  Company K of the Third  Nebraska Volunteers in Cuba
during the Spanish  - American War and was  a past Nebraska Department
Commander  of the  Spanish -  American War  Veterans.  He  was  also a
member of  the Veterans of  Foreign Wars and  a charter member  of the
Knights of Columbus.   He was a member of  St. Cecilia's Church, where
he and Mrs.  Kealy were married in 1903.  They celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary  in 1953  and Mrs. Kealy  preceded her  husband in
death two years later.

In 1955 he received a Papal medal from Pope Pius XII in recognition of
his services "for the Pope and Church."

He  is survived  by eight  daughters, Mrs.  J. J.  Maher,  Omaha; Miss
Loretta  Kealy,  New  York  City;  Mrs.  Ralph  Worden,  Los  Angeles,
Mrs.  R.  C.  McMurray,   Coeur  d'Alene,  Ida.;  Mrs.  Ralph  Miller,
Mrs. D. B. Foote, Mrs. Richard Sheehy and Miss Josephine Kealy, all of
Hastings; three  sons, Richard J., Hastings, Monsignor  Thomas and the
Rev. Daniel, both of Lincoln; three sisters, Mrs. John Roth, Hastings;
Mrs. Margaret Goodwin, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Aimee Vreeland, Omaha; 30
grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

ROSARY  MONDAY

The  Rosary   will  be   recited  Monday  evening   at  7:30   in  the
Butler-Volland  Chapel  with  Monsignor   Thomas  Kealy,  son  of  the
deceased, officiating.

A Con-celebrated Mass will be  offered at St. Cecilia's Church Tuesday
at 9:30 a.m.  by Monsignor Thomas Kealy, Vicar  General of the Diocese
of Lincoln,  Father Daniel Kealy of  St. John's Parish  in Lincoln and
Father  Rawley Myers  of St.  Joseph's Parish  in York.   Bishop James
V. Casey of Lincoln will give the final blessing and Father Myers will
preach the  sermon. Interment  will be in  Parkview cemetery  with the
Butler-Volland Funeral Home in charge.

The family suggests memorials in Mr. Kealy's honor may be given to the
Crosier Monastery.

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		     Rosary Friday For Mrs. Kealy

       Longtime Resident of Hastings Dies at 74 in Family Home

Mrs. Frank  D. Kealy, who had been  in failing health for  a number of
weeks, died Thursday at her home at 1300 east Seventh. She was born 74
years ago near Trumbull, a daughter of Clay county pioneers.

Mrs. Kealy  was a member of  St. Cecilia's Catholic Church  and of the
Altar Society and St. Cecilia's Social Circle.

On the occasion of the Kealys' golden wedding in September, 1953, His
Excellency,  the Most  Rev. Louis  B.  Kucera, Bishop  of the  Lincoln
Diocese, presided at anniversary  services in St. Cecilia's Church and
a telegram  from the Vatican  imparting the Apostolic Blessing  of His
Holiness, Pope Pius XII, to the jubilarians was read.

RECOGNITION

Last  May, Mr.  and  Mrs. Kealy  received  the medal  Pro Ecclesta  et
Pontifice in special services at  St. Cecilia's in which Bishop Kucera
officiated.

Mrs.   Kealy is  survived by  her  husband, daughters  Mrs.  Ralph  A.
Miller,  Mrs.   Donovan B.   Foote,  Mrs.   Richard  Sheehy, and  Miss
Josephine Kealy of  Hastings, Mrs.  John Maher of  Omaha, Miss Loretta
Kealy of New  Rochelle, N.Y., Mrs.  Ralph Worden  of Columbus, O., and
Mrs.   Roy   McMurray  of  Coeur   d'Alene,  Ida.;  sons,   the  Right
Rev. Monsignor Thomas  Kealy and the Rev. Daniel  Kealy of Lincoln and
Richard  Kealy  of  Hastings;   25  grandchildren,  and  her  sisters,
Mrs. Julian Bassett and Mrs. Lena Horrigan of Hastings.

SERVICES SATURDAY

The recitation  of the Rosary will  be Friday evening at  8 o'clock in
the  Livingston-Butler-Volland  Chapel with  the  Right Rev.  Monsignor
M. C. Grogan of St. Cecilia's Parish officiating.

Monsignor Grogan  also will officiate in services  Saturday morning at
11  o'clock in  St.  Cecilia's  Church.  Burial  will  be in  Parkview
cemetery.