Bessie May Keith - 1887 - 1961

KEITH, ORN, HAMMOCK, BROOKS, MAST, GRABER, CORNICK

Posted By: Deb (email)
Date: 10/20/2007 at 07:02:55

The Mt. Pleasant News, Monday, August 21, 1961, page 1

Mrs. Alfred Keith Dies in Texas

Mrs. Alfred Keith, former Wayland area residnent, died Saturday noon at her home in Mission, Tex., where they had resided the past ten years.

The body will arrive Monday at 10 p.m. at Burlington, and be brought to the Zehr Funeral Home at Wayland.

Services will be held Wedensday, Aug 23 at 2 p.m. at the Finley Chapel, with Rev. J.K. Pritchard and Rev. Fred Martin officiating. Burial will be in the Finley cemetery.

The daughter of James Orn and Lydia Hammock Orn, she was born in Henry County, Iowa, Feb. 22, 1887. Her parents and a daughter, Velma preceded her in death.

She is survived by her husband and five children, Theron Keith of Mission, Tex., Mrs. George(Dorthea) Brooks of Wayland, Mrs. Johenry(Lucille) Mast of Wayland, Marvin Keith of New London, and Mrs. Dwight (Mary Frances) Graber of Crawfordsville; 17 grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Parke Cornick of Mt. Pleasant, and one brother, Ralph Orn of Moline, Ill.