OBIT: Ignatius B. KEYSER, 1948, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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IGNATIUS B. KEYSER

TRIPLE MILITARY FUNERAL

  The bodies of three cousins who lost their lives in action in World War II 
were returned the same day to their home, Frederick, Md., where on Tuesday, Oct. 
5, low requiem mass was held for them in St. John's Catholic Church and full 
military honors rendered at the Memorial Plot in Mt. Olivet cemetery where they 
were reinterred.  The young soldiers were Pfc. Francis Leo Kennedy, killed in 
action March 31, 1943, on the Tunisian front in North Africa; Pfc. Charles 
Francis Kennedy, killed in action in France on August 10, 1944, and Lt. Ignatius 
B. Keyser, killed in action in Belgium on Christmas Day, 1944.
  Charles Kennedy was a nephew of W. F. Woullard of Meyersdale, the young man's 
mother, Mrs. Bernard J. Kennedy, Jr., also deceased, being Mr. Woullard's 
sister.  Mr. Woullard attended the funeral services of the three cousins.

Meyersdale Republican, October 7, 1948