Waldo Anthony Keitges 1896 - 1985

KEITGES, NELSON

Posted By: Connie Swearingen
Date: 9/28/2023 at 01:26:02

Sioux City Journal
10 May 1985

DANBURY, Iowa -- Waldo A. Keitges, 89, of Lincoln, Neb., former Danbury resident, died Wednesday in a hospital in Lincoln.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in St. Mary's Catholic Church in Danbury. The Rev. Robert Thiele will officiate. Burial will be in the Danbury Catholic Cemetery with military graveside rites conducted by the Carlsen Frum Post 336, American Legion of Danbury. The rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. today in the Walter Funeral Home in Mapleton.

Mr. Keitges was born March 28, 1896, at Danbury. He married Mary Nelson May 1, 1920, in Sibley. They lived in Omaha for a short time and moved to Rockwell City where he was a bookkkeeper for the Dixon Lumber Yard. They moved to Creighton, Neb., and then to Lincoln in 1936 where he was secretary for the Nebraska Lumberman's Association. He served in U.S. Army during World War I and was appointed to the Coal Rationing Board during World War II. Mrs. Nelson died Dec. 29, 1983.

Mr. Nelson was a member of Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Lincoln and a past member of the Knights of Columbus.

Survivors include two brothers, Gilbert of Las Vegas, Nev. and R.C. "Curls" of Holstein..