David Wendell Myers (1938-1968)

MYERS, KEESHAN, NOBLE, BECKMAN

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 7/16/2025 at 17:30:29

From Albion News, Albion, Boone County, Nebraska, November 27, 1968.

Marine Captain David W. Myers killed in Vietnam last Wednesday.

Marine Captain David W Myers, 30, was killed in Qsang Provice, Vietnam, last Wednesday, according to word reaching his widow, Janelle, from the Marine Chaplain's office in Washington on Friday.

The telegram stated that a helicopter on which Capt. Myers was a passenger crashed and burned as a result of hostile ground fire at a landing in the mountains while delivering soldiers to a combat zone.

Capt. Myers' widow, who lives at 637 S. Fourth St. in Albion, is the former Janelle Keeshan. He is also survived by three daughters, Christine, ten, Vicky, nine, and Tracey, five, and a son, David, four.

Other survivors are Capt. Myers' mother, Mrs. Lem Noble of Albion, and a sister, Mrs. John (Geraldine) Beckman, Eden Prairie, Mn, and Mrs. Myers parents, Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Keeshan of Albion. Many other close relatives also survive.

Capt. Myers was a 1965 graduate of Albion High School, where he lettered in football, basketball and track. He was born on July 7, 1938, at Norfolk.

He was preceded in death by his father, the late Dean O. Myers and an older brother, the late Dean A. Myers.

Capt. Myers attended the University of Nebraska and Iowa State College, where he received his degree in forestry in March of 1961.

Following his graduation, he spent three years in the Marine Corps, being separated from that service in 1964.

He returned to Nebraska and operated a sporting goods and liquor store in McCook until June 6, 1968, at which time he reenlisted in the Marine Corps.

Capt. Myers went overseas to Okinawa Nov. 26, 1967. Last July 18, he was shipped to Vietnam where he was in charge of a headquarters company whose duty it was to transfer military personnel.

Capt. Myers' widow has received three Purple Hearts from her husband, but no explanation came with the decorations.

Had he survived three more days his combat obligation in Vietnam would have been fulfilled and he would have been rotated back to the states.

The body is being shipped home and burial will be in Rosehill Cemetery. Normal transit time for a body from Vietnam is ten to 14 days, and no funeral services can be announced pending arrival of the body in the States.

Poster note: In addition to the Iowa State graduation, David's Vietnam record shows his home as Story County, Iowa. His death, however, did not seem to be published in the Story County newspapers and he ties were clearly in Nebraska. It is likely he joined the Marines upon graduation at which time his home was Story County, and that record was never updated.