MR. KEAN DIES AT 96
Died 01/1970
	
     A longtime Oktibbeha County
resident, J. C. Kean Sr., died 
yesterday morning at his home 
in Sessums at the age of 96. 
     Services will be this morning 
at 10 o’clock at the First Pres-
byterian Church.  The Rev. Perry 
Biddle will officiate, and burial 
will be in Oddfellows Cemetery.  
Welch Funeral Home is in charge 
of arrangements. 
     The elders and deacons of the 
church will be honorary pall-
bearers.  
     Mr. Kean, a native of Ontario, 
Canada, was a retired dairy 
farmer.  He came to Mississippi 
A & M in 1910 to join the staff of 
the experiment station.  He be-
gan his dairy farming in Ses-
sums several years later with 
registered Jersey cattle.
     He was a Farmer Bureau mem-
ber, a Chamber of Commerce 
      (continued on page 10) (the other part of this obit was not found)

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