Kathleen’s older sister Marion 
     
    

    
     (1920 - 2007). She took the religious 
     
     name Sister Mary Edith and later; 
     
     Sister Marion Keq‘e. She is buried 
     
     at the Saint Martha congregation’s 
     
     cemetary on the Mount Edward Rd. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Charlottetown Hospital where she 
     
     served as X—ray technician and later 
     
     transferred to the X—ray department 
     
    

    
     at the community hospital in Van 
     
     Buren, Maine, also run by the Sisters 
     
     of St. Martha. When it was found 
     
     that no one was certified to operate 
     
     the hospital’s boiler, Sister Mary Edith 
     
     studied and received certification 
     
    

    
     as a third grade boiler engineer. In 
     
     addition to her work as an X—ray 
     
     technician, medical records clerk and 
     
     boiler operator, she also served as 
     
    

    
     the hospital’s administrator until the 
     
     Sisters turned over the hospital to local 
     
     administrators. 
     
    
   
   
    
     She eventually returned to Prince 
     
     Edward Island where she served as 
     
    
   
   
    
     administrator and general treasurer of the Congregation. 
     
    
   
   
    
     If religion was a major influence on the Keefe family, patriotism was 
     
     another. SiX of the Keefe brothers joined the army during the Second 
     
    
   
   
    
     World War, and four served overseas. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The other Keefe children also went their separate ways. John, the 
     
    

    
     second oldest who was born in 1905, immigrated to Philadelphia 
     
    

    
     after completing college in 1925. He went to live with his uncle Joe 
     
     Monaghan. Another uncle, Jim Monaghan, worked at the Philadelphia 
     
     Electric Company and John found employment there. He eventually rose 
     
    
   
   
    
     to a supervisory position. 
     
    
   
   
    
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