Etowah County AlArchives Obituaries.....Keel, Mary March 3, 1932
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The Gadsden Times
Mrs. Mary Ellen Keel, 67, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bessie Thompson, 
at 320 North Fourth Street,Thursday, following a long illness.
Funeral services were to be held at Kyuka church at 1 o'clock Friday afternoon. 
Rev. J.M. Flood was to have charge of the services.
The pallbearers were to be Cricket Locklear, Ed Lowe, P.H. King, Bill Garrison, 
Wade Tally and Jim Locklear.
Surviving are the following children: T.E.Keel, H.G. Keel, Shreveport; Pat, 
Gadsden; Mrs. Ben Pitts, Mrs. Bessie Thompson and Mrs. Ed Forman.
The deceased was the widow of the late Pat Keel, an old-time printer, who worked 
in Gadsden for many years and who died at Rome, Ga. in 1910. He was the owner and  
editor of the first newspaper ever published in Gadsden. It was started as the 
People's Voice and later became The Gadsden Evening Journal. He also owned and 
edited the Cherokee Populist.

Additional Comments:
The deceased was born Amy Ellen Gentry in Bartow County, Ga. She was the daughter 
of William Gentry and Rebecca Drusilla Carnes. She married Patrick Keel on Nov. 
13, 1879 in Etowah County, Alabama.

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