Cerro Gordo County IA Archives Obituaries.....Keel, J. R. 1939
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Globe-Globe Gazette Apr. 1939
From the Mason City (Cerro Gordo, Iowa) Globe-Gazette, Thursday April 6, 1939,
p. 19, col. 3:

J.R. KEEL, 55, DIES AT HOME

Superintendent Crystal Lake Ice and Fuel Ill Only Four Days

Jesse Richard Keel, 55, superintendent of the Crystal Lake Ice and Fuel company,
died at his home, 119 Eighteenth street southeast, at 8 o'clock Thursday
morning, following an illness of four days. He had been in poor health for a
number of years.

Mr. Keel was born April 23, 1883, at Plattsville, Wis. He had resided in Mason
City for the past 32 years and had been employed by the Crysal Lake Ice and Fuel
company for the past 12 years.

Surviving Mr. Keel are his wife, Bessie, one son, Charles, at home, one
daughter, Mrs. Ralph Shiffman, Mason City, two step-daughters, Mrs. Lola
Spurgeon and Mrs. Helen Christensen, Mason City, and one sister, Mrs. Ed
Anderson, Mason City. He was preceded in death by his former wife, Mrs. Maude
Keel, in 1908.

Funeral services will be held at the Patterson funeral home Saturday afternoon
at 3 o'clock, with the Rev. William Galbreth, assistant pastor of the First
Methodist church, in charge. Burial will be at Elmwood cemetery.


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