Robert
P. Kearney
October 25, 2009
Robert P. “Ange” Kearney, 88, a resident of Madisonville, died early
Sunday morning in the Inpatient Hospice Unit at the Community Medical Center
after a brief illness. He was the widow
of Lucy M. Fueglein VanBrunt Kearney who died April 21, 1999.
He was born in Scranton and raised on the East Mountain section, the son
of the late Christopher J. and Mary Kuehner Kearney.
He was a member of St. Catherine of Siena
Church, Moscow, Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Young Adults and the Waldorf
Park German American Federation. He was a
World War II veteran serving with the US Army, a member of the Abington Vets
Club, the Veteran of Foreign Wars, John J. Michael VFW Post 5207, Daleville and
the Michael Steiner Post 411, Jessup. He owned and operated a dairy farm in
Madisonville for twenty-two years until he established the Robert Kearney &
Son’s Saw Mill in 1972, which they operated for twenty-eight years.
In 1979 he established the Kearney
Trailer Park in Madisonville.
Surviving are two sons, George Van Brunt and his wife Donna Mae,
Madisonville, Robert Kearney, Madisonville; three daughters, Donna Daly and her
husband John, Madisonville Rose Kearney, Madisonville, Ruth Ann Martin and her
husband Robert, Scranton; a sister, Mary Buttner and husband Fred, Scranton; two
brothers, Richard “Dick” Kearney, Scranton Joseph “Mouse” Kearney and his wife
Patricia, Peckville; a sister in law, Viola Compton and her husband Elmer;
seventeen grandchildren, twenty-seven great
grandchildren; two great great grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by five brothers, Paul, Christopher, Lawrence,
William and Edward; a sister Madeline DeLayo.
The funeral will be Wednesday at 10:45 a.m. from the Miller Bean Funeral
Home, Inc., 436 Cedar Ave, Scranton, with mass at 11:30 a.m. in St. Catherine of
Siena Church, Church Street, Moscow. Interment
will follow in Fairview Memorial Park, Elmhurst.
