OBIT: Adie B. KELLER, 1969, Turkey Valley, Blair County, PA

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VETERAN OF BOTH WORLD WARS, PRR SERVICE EXPIRES

  Adie B. Keller, 71, of Turkey Valley, Hollidaysburg, RD 2, veteran of 
both World Wars and retired foreman of the Altoona Works steel shop, 
died at 4:45 p.m. yesterday in Altoona Hospital, where he was admitted 
Jan. 4, after a lengthy illness.
  He was born in Duncansville on June 7, 1897, a son of Samuel A. and 
Maude (Wertz) Keller and was twice married, first to Florence J. 
Stiffler, who died Dec. 9, 1954, and Sept. 15, 1956, to Inez Saylor in 
Zion Lutheran Church, Hollidaysburg.
  Surviving are his wife, who was admitted yesterday to Altoona 
Hospital suffering from a heart ailment; a daughter, Mrs. Polly 
Liebegott of Duncansville; a step-daughter, Mrs. Shirley Dietze of 
Altoona; four grandchildren, and a brother Samuel W. of Altoona.
  Mr. Keller was a member of Fort Fetter Post, American Legion, and a 
member and past commander of the Duncansville VFW Post. He was a 
veteran of Army service and retired in 1946 with the rank of major from 
a railway battalion.
  He retired in 1962 from the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. and more 
recently had been employed at the Samuel Rea shops, Hollidaysburg, as 
an inspector for Hunt Associates.
  Friends will be received in the Liebegott Funeral Home, Duncansville, 
from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow. 

Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., February 6, 1969

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