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Show Prominent Contractor Succumbs At Cedar City Home Bert Keele, 58, prominent local lo-cal brick mason and contractor, and veteran of World War I died at his home Sunday of coronary thrombosis. Mr. Keele had been going about his work as usual and reported being slightly 111 only a short time before his death, which came about two hours after he first complained. Funeral services will be held In the Cedar First ward chapel Friday at 2 p. m. under the direction di-rection of Bishop Parson U. Webster. Web-ster. Burial will be made in the Cedar City cemetery, i Mr. Keele was born In Panaca, Nev., Feb. 9, 1895, a son of Wil- Ham and Isabel LIston Keele. He married Emma Jolley of Glen-dale, Glen-dale, Utah on Sept. 6, 1920, in Panguitch, and they made their home In Glendale until 1923 when they moved to Cedar City where he had resided since. He had engaged in building construction and masonry work during his residence here. As a member of the United States Army he served In France during World War I. He is survived by his mother, Caliente, Nev.; his widow, two daughters, Mrs. Ellis (Marie) Lambeth, and Miss Lois Keele, Cedar City; a son, Carl Keele, with the U. S. Air Force on Okinawa, Oki-nawa, and three grandchildren. Also surviving are two sisters and five brothers, Mrs. Isabel j Rice and Mrs. Mavel Clapham, I Las Vegas, Nev.; William Keele, Caliente, Nev.; Jacob Keele, Anchorage. An-chorage. Alaska; Edward and Clyde Keele, Las Vegas, and Robert Rob-ert Keele, Baker, Ore. |