Pedigree
Johannes A. H. Hendrickx
Louis J. Hendrickx
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Maria M. Timmermans
Hendrickx, Anna Theodora
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Jacobus J. Dousi
Julianna
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Adrianna Hol
Born: 13 January
1928
Butler, Minnesota
Died: 30 March 1982
Chicago, Illinois
Buried: 3 April 1982
All Saint's Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois
Father: Louis
Joseph Hendrickx
Mother: Julianna Jacoba
Dousi
Siblings: Francis Joseph
b. 12 January 1921 - d. 8 July 1996
Maria Johanna
b. 19 February 1922 -
Joseph James
b. 4 May 1923 - d. 14 November 1999
John Anthony
b. 17 November 1924 - d. 1 January 1990
Norbert Peter
b. 18 May 1926 - d. 14 November 1987
Christine Petronella b. 29 January 1929 -
William Marinus b. 31 May
1930 - d. 27 May 1996
Louis Adrian
b. 29 December 1931 -
Andrew George b. 14 July
1933 -
Clara Josephine b.
16 July 1935 -
Petronella Odelia b. 16 July 1935
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Spouse: Maurice
John Mulhern
Married: 26 July 1947
Holy Cross Catholic Church, Butler, Minnesota
Children: Raymond
Michael b. 7 October 1948 - d. 10 June 1999
Patrick Louis
b. 10 January 1950 - d. 27 April 1990
Anne Marie
b. 1 June 1952
John Kevin
b. 9 September
1954
Michael Francis
b. 9 December 1955
Kevin Joseph
b. 29 November 1958 - d. 31 October 1997
Mary Therese
b. 15 April 1962
Brian Thomas
b. 1 November 1965
2 additional pregnancies ended in miscarriages.
Notes: Anna
(Ann) was the sixth of twelve children born to Louis and Julianna Hendrickx.
She was born in their farmhouse in Butler, Minnesota. Ann
attended a country school
in Butler Township
After completing school, Ann worked with her
older sister, Maria (Marie), in the kitchen
at St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota. Marie was dating
Gene Kennedy, a teacher
at St. Mary's. Marie and Gene arranged a blind date between
Ann and one of Gene's
students, Maurice (Jack) Mulhern. In July of 1947, the two couples
celebrated a double
wedding.
Ann and Jack moved to Minneapolis where she
worked at the Cremette's factory until
the birth of their first child, Raymond, in October 1948. Toward
the end of 1949, Ann,
Jack and Raymond moved to Chicago and into a basement apartment in
Jack's parent's
house at 1409 North Mason. In January of 1952, while pregnant
with their third child,
Ann and Jack purchased and moved intoa home at 1216 North Parkside
Avenue in
Chicago. After the death of Jack's father in 1955, Ann, Jack,
and his mother, Margaret,
jointly purchased a home at 5201 West Berteau Avenue in Chicago. Margaret
lived in
an upstairs apartment, Ann and Jack raised their 8 children
in this home.
After her youngest child began attending school full-time, Ann
started working at a nearby
Sear's Department Store. Her duties at the store included
inventorying incoming shipments
of fine jewelry. For security purposes, she would be locked
into a small wire cubicle where
she would open, count, and record the jewelry. Ann was employed
at Sear's until illness
prevented her from working.
At age 49, Ann was diagnosed
with pernicious anema, depressed bone marrow and acute
leukemia. Her doctors told the family that
Ann had only about 3 months to live. Ann was
never told of this prognosis, and as a result,
her willpower gave her the strength to survive
for 5 years. Her leukemia went into remission
several times during those years. She died
at the age of 54. The official cause of death
was pneumonia, a common side effect of
chemotherapy treatment.
Photos:
Anna and her siblings:
L to R standing: Andrew, Louis, William, Christine,
Anna, Norbert, John, Joseph, Marie,
Francis. In wagon: Clara and Petronella - circa
1936.
Anna Theodora Hendrickx - circa 1945.
26 July 1947 - Double wedding ceremony with sister
Marie and Gene Kennedy.
L to R: Clara Hendrickx, John Hendrickx, Mary Frances
Mulhern, Anna and Maurice
Mulhern, Marie and Gene Kennedy, Christine Hendrickx, Francis Hendrickx,
Petronella
Hendrickx.
Anna and Maurice (Jack) - circa 1978.