KEOUGH, HARRIET ELIZABETH SPRALDING

by Frances Jane Blackburn

Entry F239 from the History of Hooker County Nebraska
with permission of the Hooker County Historical Society

Harriet is the second child of Raymond and
Edna Spradling. She was born 1922,
in Mullen. Her sister is Frances Jane Black-
burn.

At the time of her birth her parents lived
in Hecla where her father was Agent for the
CB&Q Railroad. After a time her father bid
the Agent's job in Seneca and the family
moved there. She started to school there with
Miss Trotter as her first teacher.

In 1937 she moved to Oakland, California,
with her mother, grandmother and uncles
Kenneth and Jack Catron. She was 15, and
enrolled in Technical High School in Oak-
land. After graduation she secured work with
Southern Pacific Railroad company as Tele-
grapher. Her work there lasted 19 years.
When computerization shut down the termi-
nal in Oakland she left Southern Pacific and
enrolled in an IBM data processing school,
subsequently working for various companies.

She married Wilbert Henry Keough and
had a son, Craig Edward. Both she and her
son live in Rohnert Park, California, seven
miles south of Santa Rosa, she has one
grandchild, Caryn.