Obituaries:  Mr. George F. Keene, Sabine Parish       K-500
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Mar 9, 1994
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Mr. George F. Keene

  Services for George F. Keene will be at 2 p.m., Thursday, March
3, 1994, in the Chapel of Hixson Brothers, Alexandria, with Dr.
Larry Taylor officiating. Burial was in Greenwood Memorial Park,
Pineville.

  Mr. Keene, 81, of Alexandria, died at 3:45 p.m., Tuesday, March
1, in Rapides General Hospital, Alexandria.

  He was a native of Pleasant Hill, a graduate of Grand Cane High
School, and Louisiana Tech, where he lettered in track and
baseball in 1933. He was a U. S. Navy veteran of World War II,
and had lived in Alexandria for over 40 years.

  He was a member of Emmanuel Baptist Church, and retired from
Rapides Bank and Trust Company, after 28 years of service.

  Survivors include his wife, Claire Sutherlin Keene of
Alexandria; one son, George F. Keene III of Wrightwood, Calif.;
and three daughters, Jane Keene of Houston, Tex., Martha Bell of
Shreveport, and Barbara Lyles of Ball. He was also survived by
four grandchildren.