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Frances Margaret Seitz was born Tuesday, February 14, 1882 to Jacob and Catherine Seitz in Cleveland, Ohio. Frances was baptized shortly thereafter in the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Cleveland. Frances Margaret Seitz married Harry Michael O'Keefe on Wednesday, November 11, 1903 in St. Francis' Church, Cleveland, Ohio. Rev. F. Metternich officiated. The new Mrs. Frances O'Keefe was 21 and he was 27 years old. He had returned from fighting in the Philippines a little over eighteen months previously. They had three children. Harry and Frances moved in with his parents for about a year when their first child, Gertrude Catherine O'Keefe was born October 19, 1904 and again when Edward Joseph O'Keefe arrived on May 11, 1907. In 1910 they moved to 1460 East 93rd Street, which would be their home until 1926. Bernice Frances O'Keefe was born December 23, 1917. When Bernice was born Frances was 35 and Harry was 41. Gert was 13 and Ed 10 years old.

On August 16, 1922, at the age of 45 Harry joined the U. S. Government's Veteran's Bureau (later called Veteran's Administration) serving in Dayton, Columbus, Lexington and Toledo before finally being assigned to the Cleveland office. Frances was left to run the household while her husband worked out of town. About the same time her son Edward started working full time when he left school after finishing the ninth grade at the age of 16. A few years later, Harry and Frances bought a home that had been built in 1927 at 1251 Irene Road, Lyndhurst Village in what was called the Mayfield Highlands. Ed moved out a few years before he got married on November 8, 1932 and, Gert, her oldest daughter was married on January 26, 1933.

Frances' husband Harry died October 9, 1937 at his home 1251 Irene Road, Lyndhurst, Ohio from angina pectoris (heart problems) at the age of 60. Frances was 55 when Harry died. After a funeral mass at St. Gregory the Great Church, he was buried at Calvary Cemetary. Harry and Frances were married 33 years.

Bernice was 19 when her father died and was living at home with her mother on Irene Road. On August 9, 1941 Bernice married Edward Charles Feller. Bernice was 23 years old and Ed was 22. Ed Feller was soon serving in the US Army during the Second World War. Bernice continued to live with her mother on Irene Road until Ed came back from the service in 1944. Frances sold the house on Irene and moved into a duplex with Ed and Bernice. Frances lived with Bernice and her family for the next twenty years. After a short stay in the hospital, Frances moved into the apartment on Wellesley with her daughter Gert a few years after Gert's husband Dan's death in 1961. Gert and Frances later moved to the retirement apartments that were built where Euclid Beach Park had been located. Frances, needing more care, was moved to Greenlawn nursing home in Concord, Ohio for several years before her death. Frances died October 20, 1980 at the age of 98. After the Mass of Resurrection, she was buried next to her husband of 33 years; some 43 years after his death, in Calvary Cemetery section 12 lot 183.

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