Sr.. and those of us who have been her neighbors know her as "Grandma Brennan." I am indebted to Mr. William C. Fogarty. Jr.. a former Omaha newsman now on the staff of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce. for furnishing me some of the details of this remarkable ladys lif e. Mrs. Brennan was a pioneer to the Nebraska territory at a time when the Indians were in close residency in our mutual neighborhood. An immigrant from Essen. Germany. where she was born in 1875. she came to Omaha with her parents. Phillip and Louise Schleuter with her sister Helen and brother William in 1881.
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