Loretta Kealy

Loretta J. Kealy, 74, of  Good Samaritan Village Perkins Pavilion died
Sunday, Feb. 9, 1992, at Perkins Pavilion.

Rosary  is Tuesday  at 7:30  p.m. at  the Butler-Volland  Funeral Home
chapel.   Services  are  Wednesday  at  10:30 a.m.  at  St.  Cecilia's
Catholic Church with the Rev. John J. McCabe officiating.  Burial will
be in Parkview Cemetery.

Miss  Kealy was born  Feb. 14,  1917, in  Hastings where  she attended
St. Cecilia and graduated in  its first graduating class in 1935.  She
worked  as  an  executive  secretary  for a  broadcasting  company  in
Omaha. She continued  her career in New York  with Broadcast Data Base
Inc.  and later  as executive  secretary  at H-R  Television Inc.  She
returned  to  Omaha and  worked  for  the  Metropolitan Area  Planning
Agency. She moved back to Hastings in 1981.

She was a member of St. Cecilia's Catholic Church.

Survivors are four sisters, Marie Foote and Mary Helen Sheehy, both of
Hastings, Eileen  Worden of Malibu,  Calif., and Patricia  McMurray of
Coeur  D'Alene, Idaho;  and  one  brother, Monsignor  T.  M. Kealy  of
Lincoln.

Memorials may be given to St. Cecilia's Catholic Church.


The Hastings Tribune.