Mary Elizabeth FIELDS

  General Notes:

1911 BIRTH of Mary Elizabeth Fields

1919 DEATH of grandfather, George W. Fields

1920 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Honey Creek Township (January 21) ("Mary," age 8, is with her father, "J. E.," and siblings) (mother "Pearl," age 39, is in the household of her own mother, Elizabeth A. Elliott, age 80, widow, also in Honey Creek Township, Iowa County, Iowa)

1925 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Iowa County, Honey Creek Township (January 1) ("Mary," age 13, is with her parents)

1930 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Washington Township (April 18) ("Mary," age 18, is "niece" in the household of "H. G." and "Adda" Smith)

1942 MARRIAGE of Mary Elizabeth Fields and Reginald James Kenney on March 12 in Lancaster, Missouri

1966 DEATH of husband, Reginald James Kenney, at 63 years 4 months 9 days

2007 DEATH, Mary Elizabeth (Fields) Kenney, at 95 years 3 months 22 days




OBITUARY (Mary Elizabeth) from CEDAR RAPIDS GAZETTE, March 13, 1907:


Mary E. Fields Kenney, age 95, died Saturday, March 10, 2007 at her daughter's home in rural Marengo following an extended illness. Funeral services 10:30 a.m. Thursday, March 15, 2007 at St. John's Lutheran Church, Marengo, with Rev. Douglas Morton officiating. Burial will be in Koszta Cemetery, rural Marengo. Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 14, 2006 at Kloster Funeral Home, Marengo.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband James on January 23, 1966, four brothers, Roy, Carl, George, and John Fields, and six sisters, Edith Elliott, Ethel Cooper, Alene Graham, Frances Urfer, Ruth Randolph and Alice Heck.

Mary Elizabeth Fields was born November 16, 1911 in Koszta, Iowa, the daughter of John E. Fields and Pearl (Frazee) Fields. She received her education in the Koszta area schools and graduated from Marengo High School in 1930. She married James Reginald Kenney on March 12, 1942 in Lancaster, MO. She was a farm wife and homemaker. Mary was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church in Marengo.

Mary married Reginald James KENNEY on March 12, 1942 in Lancaster, Missouri. (Reginald James KENNEY was born on September 14, 1902 in Marengo, Iowa County, Iowa and died on January 23, 1966 in Marengo, Iowa County, Iowa.)