Margaret "Kay" Kathleen (O'Gara) McKivergan

Margaret Kathleen "Kay" O'Gara McKivergan, 96, of rural Ponca passed away on Monday, August 3, 2015 in Jackson, NE.Services will be at 10:30 A.M. on Friday, August 7, 2015 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Ponca, where Kay has been a parishioner since early 1945. Burial will be in Calvary at South Creek Cemetery in rural Ponca. Visitation will begin at 6:00 P.M., with a scriptural wake service at 7:00 P.M. on Thursday, August 6, 2015 at the Mohr Funeral Home in Ponca, NE. Kay was born in Smithwick, South Dakota on January 25, 1919, the daughter of Michael Gilbert and Mary Z. (Boler) O'Gara. She was the fourth child in a family of nine children. In late 1933, Kay moved with her family to Jackson, Nebraska, where she attended, and in 1938, graduated from St. Catherine's Academy. On October 8, 1940, Kay married Frank McKivergan, whom she had known since she was sixteen years old. Kay and Frank farmed first in the Goodwin/Willis area, then nearer Ponca, then in 1945, on the farm west of Ponca where they lived out the rest of their lives. Frank passed away on March 20, 2000. In retirement, Kay participated in the church activities of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, usually attending daily Mass. For several years, she taught faith-based studies to the grade school-aged youth of the parish and was a volunteer through Hospice.She was kind hearted, filled with faith and a friend to anyone she met, always with a smile on her face. Kay will be missed by us all.Survivors include Kay's children, James and his wife Glenna, of Columbia, South Carolina, Timothy and his wife Gwen, of New Braunfels, Texas, Diana Rittscher and her husband Keith, of Palm Bay, Florida, and Lois and her husband Gary Wilson, of Dakota City, Neb.; grandchildren include Lois' daughter Charity Krogh; Diana's son Keith and her daughters Kristin Dreeszen and Kimberly Nodier; Tim's daughter Teresa Mirarchi and his son Scott; and Jim's daughters Tawnee Keelor and Bridget Heneghan and his son Michael; nineteen great-grandchildren; her younger brother Tom, of Marble Falls, Texas; sisters-in-law, Annelise O'Gara and Irma O'Gara; brother-in-law, Wesly "Lee" Keller; sister-in-law, Charlyne McKivergan; and a great many more nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, Michael and Mary O'Gara; her husband, Frank McKivergan; brothers, Gilbert "Bill" O'Gara and his wife, Rosemary (Minton) O'Gara, Michael "Rod" O'Gara, Francis "Bart" O'Gara; and sisters, Helen Mackey and her husband Edward Mackey, Mary Eda Marcault and her husband, Eugene Marcault, Dorothy Cummings and her husband, George Cummings and Genevieve "Johnnie" Keller; her brother-in law Joseph McKivergan; her sister-in-law Margaret Bousquet and husband Roland Bousquet.Our heartfelt thanks to Kristin Dreeszen for her loving care of our mother and grandmother.In lieu of flowers, please direct memorials to St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Ponca NE and to Hospice of Siouxland.