John J. Keller (1966)

KELLER, FOUTCH, METZGER, BANWART, BANWARD

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 7/25/2006 at 20:54:55

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
November 23, 1966

JOHN J. KELLER, Arlington Burial For Earlham Man

Funeral services for John J. Keller of near Earlham were held Nov. 3 from the Fisher Funeral home in Adel. The Rev. Robert McBlain of Atlantic officiated at the services. Burial was made in Arlington National cemetery in Virginia, with an official military honor guard from Fort Myers, Va.

Mr. Keller's death had occurred Oct. 31, 1966, after an illness of several years. He was 53 years of age.

A native of West Bend, where he was born July 28, 1913, a son of Albert and Bertha Keller, most of his life was spent in that community. He had lived at Earlham since 1959.

He was a veteran of World War II, serving three years overseas in the South Pacific, where he received the injuries which eventually resulted in his death.

He was married Sept. 1, 1946 at the Little Brown church near Nashua, to Donna Foutch, who survives him. He also leaves four children, John J. Keller, II., a student at Drake university in Des Moines, Joan, Jerry, and Susan at home; and three sisters, Mrs. Bueben Metzger of Elgin, Mrs. Earl Banwart of West Bend, and Mrs. Walter Banward of Ottosen.