Blackburn, Ruby

Ruby married Conners, Barry Bef 1912. Barry was born Bef 1894; died Bef 1994. [Group Sheet]

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• Obituary: 25 Jun 2010

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Obituary:
Renee Rohan (Conners)
Mrs. Renee Rohan, widow of former Kaukauna Alderman and City Attorney Emmet Rohan, died peacefully after a short illness June 19th, 2010 at Appleton Medical Center. Renee was born June 7th 1912 in Fort Smith Arkansas, where her actor parents, Barry Conners and the former Ruby Blackburn were appearing with a traveling theatrical group. Renee was raised by her grandparents in Milwaukee. Her father Barry ultimately became a highly successful playwright, with three plays running on Broadway in a single year (1925). As a teenager and young adult Renee spent her summers with her father in New York and his farm in Westport, Connecticut and later Hollywood, California when he began writing scripts for the company that became 20th Century Fox. Family and friends will remember Renee with great affection for her wonderful sense of humor and her lifelong love of literature which she managed to instill in her children. Her genial nature, talent in watercolor art and enthusiastic study of Russian and French were an inspiration. Renee touched dozens of lives while on Earth. People who encountered her came away better for the experience. She was loved by all who knew her and will be missed beyond measure.
Renee is survived by a daughter Mary Ann (Mike) of Prarie Du Chien, Wisconsin. Two sons: Sean (Terese) of Kaukauna and Barry (Kathy) of Gross Pointe Woods, Michigan. Renee also left eight grandchildren: Maureen Edwards, Tom, Ann and Bridget Garrity, Liz and Brendan and Liam and Conner Rohan, along with seven great grandchildren. Renee was preceded in death by her husband, Emmet and son, Michael.
The family would like to thank Dr. Greg Johnson and staff whose medical expertise played a large part in Renee's longevity. The Appleton Medical Center for wonderful counsel and care and also the St. Paul home for making her last months so enjoyable for her.
A Memorial Mass will be held at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCH, 309 Desnoyer Street, Kaukauna. Friends will be received at the church from 2:00 p.m. until the time of Mass.
Fargo Funeral Home 400 W. Wisconsin Avenue Kaukauna, WI 54130 (920) 766-6200

Renee married Rohan, Emmet 29 Oct 1932. Emmet (son of Rohan, William Matthew and Golden, Mayme Elizabeth) was born 21 Apr 1908, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA; died 12 Jan 1970; was buried Aft 12 Jan 1970, St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Kaukauna, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet]

Mary married Garrity, Dr. Michael [Group Sheet]

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• Education - High School: 1955, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
• Military Service: Aft 1954; US Army
• Obituary: 12 Jun 2013; Appleton Post Crescent

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Education - High School:
Kaukauna High School Class of 1955

Obituary:
Barry Emmet Rohan, a newspaper reporter who worked at major US newspapers in Milwaukee, Chicago, Minneapolis and Detroit in a nearly 40 year career, died the morning of May 31, 2013 in Grosse Pointe, MI, after emergency surgery. He was 76.
Born on October 12, 1936, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Emmet and Renee Rohan, Barry would spend most of his youth and adolescence in and around Kaukauna, Wisconsin, where he graduated from Kaukauna High School. After graduation, he served in the army as a morse code radio operator in the Philippines. During that time he had many adventures including leaves in Hong Kong and Tokyo.
After his discharge from the army, he attended and graduated from Marquette University in Milwaukee, with a degree in journalism. His first job was at the Waukesha Freeman and after a stint with the Milwaukee Sentinel, he became a copy editor and features writer at the Chicago Tribune.
In Chicago he met his wife, Kathryn Hannan, where they married on June 18, 1966. Soon after the young couple moved to Minneapolis, where Barry was a reporter with the Minneapolis Tribune and later worked as a speech writer for Dayton-Hudson. It was in Minneapolis they had their two children, Elizabeth and Brendan.
In 1975, the family moved to Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan. Barry was a business news and science writer for the Detroit Free Press from 1975 until 1998 with a few lost years due to a contentious labor dispute. As a business reporter, he developed a column about Michigan's small businesses.
In the 1980s, he researched and wrote an extensive family history that ultimately connected distant cousins in Ireland and the United States.
Barry also wrote a definitive history of his grandfather, Barry Conners, a successful playwright and one of the first screenwriters in Hollywood. The article, 'My Grandfather's Trunk,' was published in an essay collection his daughter co-edited and played a part in a revival of Conners' 1925 comedy 'The Patsy' in 2011 by the Transport Group in New York City.
After his retirement, he was a tutor in an adult literacy program. And together with his dog Pippi J, he visited patients at the Michigan Rebilitation Center and participated in the Reader Dog Program at the Grosse Pointe Library.
He is survived by his wife of 46 years, Kathryn Rohan, two children, Elizabeth, of St Clair Shores, MI and Brendan, of New York City; grandson, Conor Curran; sister, Mary Anne Garrity, of Prairie Du Chien, WI and brothers Sean Rohan, of Kaukauna, WI and the late Michael Rohan.
Donations in memoriam can be made to the Michigan Humane Society michiganhumane.org or The Southwest Solutions Adult Learning Lab swsol.org/adult_learning_lab.
Published in Appleton Post-Crescent on June 12, 2013

Barry married Hannan, Kathryn [Group Sheet]

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• Obituary: 8 Jan 2001; Appleton Post Crescent

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Obituary:
Michael Rohan
1105 Joyce Street
KaukaunaAge 60, passed away early Sunday morning, January 7, 2001, at the Applet on Medical Center, following a brief illness. Michael was born in Applet on on March 11, 1940, son of the late Emmet Rohan and Renee (Conners) Roh an of Kaukauna. He was currently employed by Goodwill Industries in Menash a. Michael is survived by his mother, Renee Rohan, of Kaukauna; two brothers, Sean (Therese) Rohan, of Kaukauna, and Barry (Kathy) Rohan, of Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan; a sister, Mary Ann (Dr. Michael) Garrity of Pra irie du Chien; and by eight nieces and nephews. His father, Emmet Rohan, p receded him in death in 1976. A memorial funeral liturgy for Michael wi ll be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, January 10, 2001, at HOLY CROSS CATHOL IC CHURCH, 309 Desnoyer Street in Kaukauna with Fr. Jack Mullarkey officia ting. Inurnment will be in St. Mary Cemetery, Kaukauna. Friends may ca ll at the church on Wednesday from 3 p.m. until the hour of the liturgy.
FARGO FUNERAL HOME
400 W. Wisconsin Avenue
Kaukauna 766-6200
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