Nanette Madigan, the third child of Patrick and Bessie, made her First Holy Communion in 1894. She would have been 13 years old.On Nanette's birth certificate (November 23, 1881), she is named Anna but called Nanette in her later years. Nan married George Rooney on August 2, 1903 in Chicago, Illinois. George worked for the railroad and his job took them to Colorado and California to live. Their only child, Ruth M. Rooney, was born October 6, 1905.
ROONEY --Nanette Rooney, beloved wife of the late George W. Rooney, fond mother of Ruth; dear sister of Nell Sullivan and John Madigan, the late Mae Harbison and Harry Madigan. Funeral Saturday, 9 a.m., from Hursen Chapel, 929 Belmont avenue, to Our Lady of Mount Carmel church. Mass 9:30 a.m.. Internment All Saints.
Chicago Tribune, May 3, 1963
G. W. Rooney Rites Tuesday -- Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning for George W. Rooney, 58, for more than a decade San Francisco general agent of the Denver, Rio Grande and Western Railroad, who died here Friday, following a short illness.
Mr. Rooney, a native of Michigan and a railroad man most of his life, had been in San Francisco for eleven years. His wife, Mrs. Nanette Rooney, a daughter Miss Ruth Rooney of Chicago, and a brother, John W. Rooney of Oxnard, survive. The family home is at 411 Fifteenth Avenue.
Tuesday's services will begin at 9 a.m., at the McAvoy-O'Hara Chapel, Geary Boulevard and Ninth Avenue, with a requiem mass at Start of the Sea Church at 9:30. Interment will be in Chicago. The San Francisco Examiner, March 24, 1940.
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