Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Keeler, Lundy Eugene 1934
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Payette Enterprise, Payette, Idaho, May 31, 1934
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
May 31, 1934

OBITUARY

Lundy Eugene Keeler was born at Benton, Pennsylvania, on July 16, 1864 and 
passed away at Blackfoot, Idaho, on Wednesday, May 23, 1934, being 69 years 10 
months and 7 days of age.  Early life he moved with his parents to Muscatine, 
Iowa, then to Pawnee City, Nebraska and then near Ottawa, Kansas.  At the age 
of nineteen he went to Chicago where he took a course in telegraphy and 
business and after his graduation took over the management of one of the 
Western Union offices in Chicago.  He later became affiliated with the Wabash 
railroad where he was employed for a good many years. On June 4, 1889, he was 
united in marriage to Ora M. Bosley at Centropolis, Kansas.  To this union was 
born four children, the eldest son dying in infancy and the daughter, Mabel, 
dying in February 1921.  His wife passed away in November, 1930.  Two sons 
remain to mourn his passing, Dr. Harold B. Keeler, a dentist of San Francisco, 
and Donald E. of Payette.
Mr. Keeler moved with his family to the Payette Valley in February 1911, where 
he purchases a fruit ranch north of the city and has made his home here since.  
Mr. Keeler was a member of the local Masonic lodge and also of the Eastern 
Star.  He was the second of a family of ten children of which only two sisters 
and three brothers survive, Mrs. E. E. Linn of Portland, Mrs. Etta Willford, of 
Colorado Springs, Colorado, L. P. Keeler of Portland, R. R. Keeler of Santa 
Monica, California and J. C. (Lyle) Keeler, a former resident of Payette, now 
living at Santa Monica.  All were prevented from attending the funeral with the 
exception of Lyle who arrived last Saturday.  Funeral services were conducted 
last Saturday morning at 10 o’clock with Rev. H. E. Mowe of Emmett conducting 
the services at the church and the local Masonic Lodge, those at the Riverside 
Cemetery where interment was made along the side of his wife and daughter.  

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