Maurice was the only brother who saw front—line action in Europe. Although he was wounded in battle, his injury was not severe, and he quickly recovered.

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The once—bustling Keefe household was a much more subdued place. After Angelina died, Kathleen’s grandfather, Ambrose Monaghan, who had outlived his three wives, came to live with the Keefes. He died in 1940, and after the brothers had departed for overseas, that left just Kathleen, her father John and her brother Lennie in the home. They established a pattern: John looked after the house, Lennie looked after the farm and Kathleen kept up with her studies.

That pattern was soon interrupted. Kathleen’s sister Mary, who had married and moved to Ottawa, was now coming home. Her husband, O’Leary Curley, originally from Kelly’s Cross, was in the air force and was posted to India. Mary and her young child Angela came back to Kinkora for the duration of the war. Initially, that brought pangs of jealousy to the adolescent Kathleen. Now, she was no longer the “baby.”

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