Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  RUSSELL KEENER

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RUSSELL KEENER

OCNS - April 18, 2002 - Former resident of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, Russell 
Keener, 75, died Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at the Hillcrest Medical Center 
in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 

Russell was born in Delaware County, November 9, 1926, the son of Heavy 
and Chiccowie (Cheeter) Keener.   He worked at the Smith Out Post from 1970 
to 1980 and later worked as a grounds keeper for Phil Hughs at Grand Point 
on Grand Lake.   He is a member of the Cherokee Nation.

Survivors include:   Four children, Ellis Owens, Pawhuska, Oklahoma, 
Maudie Ann Taylor, Trenton, Tennessee, Russell Keener, Jr., Richmond, 
Virginia and Mary Kate Dauber, Pawhuska; two brothers, Scott Keener, Miami, 
Oklahoma and Ben Keener of Tulsa; a sister, Jo Ann Baker, Fairland, 
Oklahoma; seven grandchildren and several great grandchildren.

Funeral services will be at 2:00 p.m., Friday, April 19, 2002, in the 
Worley-Luginbuel Chapel, Main and Sixteenth Street, Jay, Oklahoma, with 
burial in the Jumper Cemetery.

Worley-Luginbuel Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.