Obit of Keithley, Ira L. - Washington County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Lovena Norton   (Deceased)  17 Jan 2005
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Obituary states:
Bartlesville Examiner Wednesday,Oct.11,1961

Ira L. Keithley dies; Oct.10,1961 Services here Friday:

Ira L. Keithley, 83, resident of this area since 1895, died at 7:55 p.m. 
Tuesday in the Washington County Memorial Hospital. He had been in failing 
health for the past several years.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the Arnold Moore Funeral 
Residence chapel. Rev.John Norton, of Shidler, will officiate and 
interment will be in White Rose Cemetery.

Mr.Keithley was born Dec.26,1877  in Stone co.,Missouri, near the Banson-
Springfield area, where he received his normal schooling. He delivered 
mail by horseback for the United States Postal Service in the rural 
Springfield area and was later active in farming. He came to Indian 
Territory in 1895 and made his home in the Osage Nation, near Pawhuska, 
before moving to Bartlesville. He was married to Mrs.Katie Armstrong in 
Bartlesville. She died Dec.16,1929. Following his marriage to Mrs. Rose 
Cole on July 26,1933, they have continued making their home in 
Bartlesville. Mr.Keithley was in the carpenter trade here for more than 50 
years prior to his retirement in 1953. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. 
Rose J. Keithley, of the home: two daughters, Mrs.Irene Chastine and 
Mrs.Harry Armstrong: both live in LasVagas,Nev.: five step-daughter, 
Mrs.Addie Bounds, of Bartlesville; Mrs.V.N.Riley,Fresco,Calif.; 
Mrs.W.M.Haines,Copan; Mrs.Irmel Peppard,of Tuttle,Okla.; and Mrs.Grover 
Sattlemyre, of Caruthers,Calif.;two step-sons,Dewey Armstrong,of LasVagas 
and Joe Cole,of Stillwell,Okla.; and one sister,Mrs.Emma Martin of 
Vacaville,Calif.

He died from cancer of the nose.
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