KELLER, Sylvia P.: Died 1977

KELLER, THURBER, LOVING, DROZ, PHILLIPS

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Date: 6/25/2019 at 16:31:10

Ottumwa, Iowa, Monday, May 9, 1977

SYLVIA P. KELLER

STOCKPORT - Mrs. Sylvia P. Keller, 92, died Saturday at 4 p.m. at her home in Stockport.

She was born Sept. 5, 1884, at Glasgow to Christifer and Frances Thurber Loving. On April 2, 1902, she married Anthony J. Keller at Fairfield. He died in 1959.

A lifetime resident of Van Buren and Jefferson counties, she had lived many years on a farm southeast of Fairfield. She was a member of st. Mary Catholic Church in Fairfield.

Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Mary Droz of Elgin, Ill.; one son, John of Fairfield; nine grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; 10 great-great-grandchildren; and one sister, Mrs. Elma Phillips of Des Moines.

The funeral will be Tuesday at 10 a.m. at St. Mary Church, with the Rev. Karl Holtkamp officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Lawn Cemetery, Fairfield.

Prayers for a Christian wake will be tonight at 7:30 at Behner Funeral Home in Fairfield.

Source: "Slutts Book", Pg. 214, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA