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Facts and Events
Information from George Sweeney, 6633 Shenandoah Court, Lincoln, Nebraska. Died of complications of diabetes and congestive heart failure. She preferred to be called Lee, as her father gave her a man's name. She was very talented and had a great sense of humor. She rarely talked about her mother, father and siblings. She remarried Fred Roberts several years after the death of her first husband, George P. Sweeney.
"Lee" graduated from high school in Arlington, NE in 1925. She moved to Ravenna, NE and worked for Lyman Cass, Editor, of the Ravenna News as a hot lead type setter. She met my father, George Philo Sweeney, in Ravenna when he was working as a clerk for the Burlington RR.
After their marriage in Grand Island, NE in June of 1929 they made their home at the NW corner of Verona and Seneca Aves. Lee gave birth to both her boys, Jerry and Dale, in this home. Times were difficult during the drought and depression years, however, my father always had some money to put away because of his job with the railroad.
In 1943 the family moved to Grand Island, NE because George was transferred by the railroad to the Burlington's office on the Cornhusker Ordnance Plant. Lee worked as a meat wrapper for the Safeway grocery store and later as a sale's clerk for Sears & Roebuck. After 1956 Lee's health failed due to a congestive heart condition, high blood pressure, and diabetes and she retired to her home.
After George died (in 1969) Lee moved to Lincoln in the early 1970s to be near her oldest son, Jerry. She met and married a man by the name of Fred Roberts. They enjoyed many years together until my mother had a series of strokes in the early 1980s and she was moved to a nursing care facility in Lincoln. She died in Tabitha Nursing Home in 1983.
Lee was a joyous person; she loved practical jokes and enjoyed playing cards with friends and family. Lee was a very intelligent person...able to repair most anything. Lee was an exceptional cook.
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