Lebanon County PA Archives Obituaries.....Keiter, James Marcus September 4, 2012
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  Published in Lebanon Daily News on September 7, 2012 
  PALMYRA James Marcus Keiter was born in Lebanon on October 19, 1922, to the 
  marriage of Rev. Dr. A. Charles R. Keiter and Mabel E. Keiter. James received 
  his formal education in the Lebanon City schools and graduated from Lebanon 
  High School in 1939. Following high school, he attended Muhlenberg College, 
  where he earned a B.S. degree in Biology, and, later, the University of 
  Pennsylvania School of Medicine, from which he graduated in 1946 with an M.D. 
  degree. Following graduation from medical school, James served his medical 
  internship at Reading Hospital in Reading, where he met the love of his life 
  and companion of 66 years, Lois Johns Keiter, to whom he was married on March 
  18, 1946. After his marriage and medical internship, he served in the military 
  as a medical officer at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, until his discharge in 1949 
  with the rank of Captain. James spent the next 17 years practicing family 
  medicine in Campbelltown. From August 1967 to 1987, when he retired, James 
  worked as an emergency room physician in a group medical practice which 
  pioneered emergency room services at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Lebanon. 
  During this time, he served as medical coordinator of the EMT training program 
  in Lebanon County and as a preceptor in the preceptorship program of the M.S. 
  Hershey Medical Center College of Medicine. James was a member of the 
  Pennsylvania Medical Society and the American Medical Association, member and 
  past president of the Lebanon County Medical Society, former member of the 
  American College of Emergency Physicians and Physician Advisory Committee of 
  the Emergency Health Services Federation of South-Central PA. He was a former 
  member of the board of Lebanon County M.H. & M.R. James was a former member of 
  the Palmyra Board of Education for 12 years. He belonged to Palm Lutheran 
  Church of Palmyra and was a former member of the Board of Directors of Lutheran 
  Social Services, East Region. James had a wide variety of interests, many of 
  which he shared with his wife, Lois, including music, history, art, gardening, 
  sports and travel. He was an accomplished watercolorist and clarinetist and an 
  avid tennis player and skier. Since his retirement, James and his wife Lois 
  have been active supporters of the arts and educational institutions. They 
  served on the Meal-to-Wheels Program for five years and with the Pennsylvania 
  Adopt-a-Highway program with the Palmyra Women's Club for 10 years. James M. 
  Keiter died on Tuesday, September 4, 2012. He was preceded in death by his 
  father and mother, and his brothers, Charles W. Keiter, Kenneth W. Keiter and 
  Edmund S. Keiter. He is survived by his loving wife, Lois, to whom he was 
  completely devoted; children, Jeffrey A. Keiter, Barbara A. Keiter, Joan L. 
  Keiter, and Carol A. Keiter; daughter-in-law, Mary E. Collins; son-in-law, 
  Graeme Cowen; grandchildren, Thomas C. Keiter, Megan K. Keiter, Charles W. Low, 
  Andrew J. Low, and Carolyn B. Low; two step grandchildren, Stacey E. Heiner and 
  Christopher Michael Heiner; nephews, Thomas Keiter, James Keiter, David Keiter, 
  John Keiter, Kenneth Johns and Thomas Johns; great-grandchild, Carter Low; and 
  many other relatives and friends. A visitation will be held 1 to 4 p.m. Monday, 
  September 10, 2012 at Buse Funeral Home, 145 North Grant St., Palmyra. Private 
  service and interment in Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, with military 
  honors, will be held at the convenience of the family. Memorial contributions 
  may be made to: Palm Lutheran Church, Palmyra, Pa., or Lebanon Valley College, 
  Annville, Pa., or Doctors Without Borders,  Hagerstown, Md. 
   
  Published in Lebanon Daily News on September 7, 2012 
   
  
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