Valley County ID Archives Obituaries.....Keating, James C. October 7, 2005
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El Paso Times
James C. Keating passed away on October 7, 2005 in El Paso. He was born on 
August 18, 1922 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, The son of James C. and Elsie 
Keating, Jim graduated with honors from the University Of Wisconsin at Madison 
in 1944, with a degree in chemical engineering. He belonged to Theta Delta 
Chi. At graduation he was hired by Standard Oil of California, now Chevron 
Corportation. 

Shortly thereafter, he served in the Navy, Lt, (J G) as a gunnery officer 
aboard the destroyer US Dunlap in the Pacific. The ship took the surrender of 
the Bonin Islands from the Japanese At the end of World War II. Returning to 
Chevron his career lasted over 43 Years at the Richmond, Calif. Refinery and 
he came to El Paso in 1972 as Refinery Manager. He finished his career as 
General Manager of Chevon's Refinery in Philadephia. 

He retired in 1987 and he and his wife returned to El Paso. Jim served on the 
El Paso Symphony Board, the Board of the United Way, the Junior Achievement 
Board as well as being a member of the Downtown Rotary Club, the Downtown 
Lions Club and was on the First Advisory Committee of the Assistance League of 
El Paso. 

His wife and best friend, Janie, whom he married on 1945, survives him. They 
would have celebrated their 60th Wedding Anniversary in December. He was 
preceded in death by his parents and his beloved son, Mark, in 1975 while 
working for the forest service in Idaho. He always felt his greatest 
Achievement was building a log cabin with the help of his wife and son along 
the banks of the Salmon River in the back country of Idaho where the three of 
them enjoyed fishing, hiking, backpacking, and the wonderful friends in the 
little Hamlet of Yellow Pine. There will be a Memorial Service at 2 pm on 
Wednesday October 12, 2005 at the Sunset Funeral Home-West 480 N. Resler 
Drive. Interment will be next to his son in Yellow Pine, Idaho at a later 
date. Memorials may be made to therapet Eldercare P.O. Box 13697 El Paso, TX 
79913. Animal Rescue League of El Paso, Humane Society of El Paso, Assistance 
League of El Paso. Or your favorite charity. Services are entrusted to Sunset 
Funeral Home-West. 


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