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- The Peoria Journal Star (IL)
January 2, 1992
KEWANEE _ Kathryn M. Mahaffey, 86, of 423 Hollis St. died at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 1, 1992, at Kewanee Care Nursing Center in Kewanee.
Born Oct. 2, 1905, in Ardock, N.D., to John and Justine Rapacz Gerszewski, she married Leon E. Mahaffey on Oct. 12, 1931, in Enid, Okla. He died Jan. 18, 1984. She also was preceded in death by four brothers, two sisters and three grandsons.
Surviving are three sons, Joseph of Kewanee, Michael of Athens, Ga., and Daniel of Sturgeon Bay, Wis.; three daughters, Mrs. James (Donna) DeSmit of Kewanee, Mrs. Robert (Lorna) Dobbles of Fremont, Calif., and Mrs. Robert (Dorothy) Nussear of Cambridge; 26 grandchildren; 37 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; and one brother, Joseph Gerszewski of Milwaukee.
She was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Kewanee and the Kewanee Senior Citizens Center.
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