Nancy Tynan Key

Mrs. Nancy Tynan Key, 85, retired employee of Texas Eastern Gas & Transmission Corporation, died Wednesday, November 22, 2006, at her residence on West Sixth Street. A funeral mass will be conducted at 2:30 P.M. Saturday at St. Catherine Catholic Church with Father Davis Chackaleckel officiating. The family will visit with friends Saturday from 1:30 - 2:30 P.M. at the church. Oakes & Nichols Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Memorials may be made to St. Joseph's Indian School, 113 #304 Lawler Avenue, Chamberlain, South Dakota 57325 or the charity of your choice. Notes of sympathy may be sent to the family at www.oakesandnichols.com. A native of Kilkenny, Ireland, she was the daughter of the late Joseph Tynan and Margaret Brennan Tynan. She was married to Francis L. Key who preceded her in death on July 4, 1959. Mrs. Key immigrated from Ireland as an infant and spent her childhood in Tully, Australia. She graduated from Mater Misericordiae Hospital School of Nursing in Brisbane, Australia. She married Francis Key and came to the United States as a war bride in 1946. They made their home in Lebanon, Tennessee, and she retired from Texas Eastern Gas & Transmission Corporation. She was a communicant of St. Catherine Catholic Church. Survivors include one daughter, Frances Sowell of Columbia; two sisters, Maureen Beadle and Rita (Michael) Smith, both of Maroochydore, Australia; two grandchildren, Erin Key of Houma, Louisiana; Campbell M. Sowell, III of Nashville; several nieces and nephews; and special caregivers, Cindy Bramlett and Shirley Robinson of Mt. Pleasant. She was preceded in death by her son, Dr. Kieran J. S. Key; and two brothers, Jerry Tynan and Kieran Tynan.