Mary Ellen (Keefe) KELLER

KEEFE, KELLER, STEWART, CLINTON, WHITTY, ENGESSER, FLYNN, LOWERY, MCNEELEY, COLLINS, OTOOLE, LARSON, WALTON, EWARDS, LANG, COLE, HILL, PORTER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:07:03

Mary Ellen (Keefe) Keller
8 May 1895 --- 22 May 1952

Mrs. A. E. Keller, 57, died Thursday afternoon in Mercy hospital, Fort Dodge, where she had been a patient for over two weeks.

Mrs. Keller, the former Nell Keefe, was taken suddenly ill while at her work on May 6th and went to the home of her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. N. F. Stewart. From the first her condition was regarded as serious. She was taken to the hospital the next morning, and complications of a heart condition and diabetes were more than she could overcome.

Mrs. Keller was born in Eagle Grove and was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Keefe. She was one of four children, Lester and Stephen Keefe, both deceased, and Mrs. Stewart of Eagle Grove.

She attended Sacred Heart school and before her marriage was employed as stenographer in the office of the superintendent of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad here. She was united in marriage to Arthur E. Keller and three children were born to this union, Dorothea, now Mrs. John L. Clinton of Framingham, Mass., Arthur Eugene Keller, Jr. in the marines, and John Keller, who will receive his degree in medicine at Creighton University, Omaha, Neb., next week.

In addition to her children and her sister, Mrs. Keller is survived by four grandchildren, the three sons and daughter of Mrs. Clinton. Mr. Keller died in 1949.

Mrs. Keller had a gift for music and during her lifetime gave freely and graciously of her time and talent. She was the organist and vocalist at Sacred Heart church for many years, a charter member of the Cecilian Music club, and also a member of the L.A. to the B. or R.T. She had been employed as private secretary at the M and M Livestock Products Co. for the past three years.

Funeral services were held Monday morning at 9:30 o'clock at Sacred Heart church in charge of Rev. J. E. Slowey. Burial was in the family lot in Calvary cemetery. Casket bearers were Hubert Hart, John Henneberry, Paul Bell, A. W. Tandy, Richard Noonan and Leonard Van Deelen.

Out of town relatives and friends here in addition to the immediate family were E. C. Whitty, Elmhurst, Ill.; Miss Allie Whitty, Chicago, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. I. F. Engesser and Florence of Bancroft; Mr. and Mrs. Leo Engesser and family of Armstrong; William Flynn of Oelwein; Mrs. George Lowery, Waterloo; Mrs. Claude McNeeley and Joan of Clinton; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Walton and James, Miss Virginia Collins, Perry; Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Larson and Stewart of Lake City; Rev. Thos. O'Toole of Bernard; Miss Elva J. Edwards, Ottumwa; Miss Genevieve Flynn and Miss Gertrude Mulligan, Mr. and Mrs. Harley Notestine, Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Lang, Des Moines; Mr. and Mrs. George Cole, Fort Dodge; Mrs. Bob Hill and son of Emmetsburg; and Mr. and Mrs. Leo Porter of Clarion.

EAGLE GROVE EAGLE -- Eagle Grove, Iowa
Thursday, May 29, 1952

Source --- Paul Wilde