Elizabeth Keeley

FRANZEN, KEELEY, JURGENSEN

Posted By: Linda Gatewood (email)
Date: 1/18/2009 at 12:59:02

Sept 17, 1974

The funeral for Mrs. Elizabeth Keeley will be at 1:30 PM Friday at Snell-Smith Funeral Home. She was 77 and lived in Clinton. She was found dead in her home Wednesday morning and death apparently was due to natural causes.

The Rev. Eugene S. Henry of St Stephen's Lutheran Church will officiate. Burial will be in Springdale Cemetery. Visitation will be today from 7 to 9 PM. Pall bearers will be David Colschen, James Bower, Edward S. Straszluski, Arthur Lange, William W. Waddell and Edward J. McConnell.

Mrs. Keeley was born Sept 3, 1897 in Clinton, the daughter of Jurgen and Marie Jurgensen Franzen. She married Francis G. Keeley, Oct 21, 1942 in Clinton. He died in 1968. She was a member of St. Stephen's Lutheran Church.

Survivors include three nieces, Mrs. Mark (Merle) McDermott, Mrs. Anna Weaver and Mrs. Thomas (Dorothy) McDermott, all of Clinton and one nephew, Chester Gaarde of Clinton. She was preceded in death by her husband, five sisters and one brother.