Obituaries: Bobby Wayne Keen, 1954, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: March 30, 1954 Winnfield News-American

Final Rites For PFC. Bobby Keen Held Sunday P.M.

Final rites for Pfc. Bobby Wayne Keen, who was killed in action in Korea July
8, 1953, were held at the Laurel Heights Baptist Church at 2 p.m., Sunday
afternoon, March 28, Rev. H. J. Mott and Rev. Waynon Mott, conducted the
services followed by interment in the Winnfield Cemetery.

The body of Pfc. Keen arrived in Winnfield Friday of last week and remained in
the parlors of the Southern Funeral Home, where many relatives and friends
called to pay their respects, until funeral rites on Sunday afternoon.

Pallbearers were members of the local National Guard unit.

Surviving Pfc. Keen are his mother, Mrs. Ruth Keen, grandmother, Mrs. J. C.
Snider,; two brothers, John Dennis and Thomas Michael; two sisters, Carrie
Ruth and Sara Beth, all of Winnfield.