Shannon Kelly

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Edna Kelly.

Louella Kirtley was born on April 27, 1897 at Meade County Kentucky. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Louella Kirtley.

Donald Joseph Young was born in October 1929 at Indianapolis Indiana, and died at age 77 years old on April 4, 2007 at Wabash Indiana. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Donald Joseph Young.

Richard Harry Kelly was born in January, 1921 in San Francisco to "Rose Smith" who turned out to be Louella Kirtley. His father was listed as James Patterson. He was given the name Peter Patterson and placed in a Catholic orphanage right after birth with the request that he be placed with an Irish Catholic family. When he was two or so he was placed with the Kelly family in Reno, Nevada. They were very good to him and he was to them too. DNA has proven his birth mother was Louella Kirtley. He never knew who his birth mother was or that he had siblings. He had two children, a girl and a boy. His adoptive father taught him the plumbing trade and he had his own business until he retired. He died in Fort Bragg, CA in May 2003 from emphysema which he had for years. He was funny, philosophical and loved learning. He was very private.

Rose T (Young-McDermott) Zane of frankfort, will County, Illinois us was born on September 27, 1927 to Louella Kirtley. She had siblings Richard Harry Kelly and Donald Joseph Young. Rose Zane died at age 75 years old on January 25, 2003 in Olympia Fields, Cook County, and was buried circa February 1, 2003 at Rose Hill Cemetery in Will County.