Louise Mann Kenney
2007
Louise Edwards Mann Kenney, 85, a neighborhood historian, died of congestive heart failure Feb. 3 at her home in Washington.
Mrs. Kenney wrote "Cleveland Park, Washington D.C. (1977) with Sheila Ruffine and Rosedale: The Eighteenth Century Country Estate of General Uriah Forrest (1989).
Born in Atlanta, she was a lifelong Washington resident and daughter of the founders of Mann's Potato Chip Co., which flourished as the largest mid-Atlantic region snack food maker from 1932 until 1957, when it was acquired by Sunshine Biscuit Co.
Mrs. Kenney, who was secretary of the family-owned firm, graduated from  Woodrow Wilson High School and George Washington University. She received a master's degree in social work from Catholic University in the 1940s and a second master's degree in art history from American University in the 1970s.
She worked for the Red Cross in Washington during World War II and was one of the founders of the Mental Health Association of the District of Columbia in the 1950s. She was a docent at the Phillips Collection and volunteered at Lafayette Elementary, John Eaton Elementary, Alice Deal Junior High, Woodrow Wilson High and the Sidwell Friends School.
Mrs. Kenney was a member of St. Alban's Episcopal Church.
Her marriage to Murdaugh Stuart Madden ended in divorce. Her husband of 10 years, William Sumner Kenney, died in 1995. A son from her first marriage, Michael Mann Madden, died in 1996.
Survivors include two children from her first marriage, Liddell Louise Madden of Salisbury and M. Stuart Madden Jr. of Mount Vernon, N.Y.; a brother, Frank Eugene Mann of Alexandria; and three grandchildren.