Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Lois Keefer ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Lois Keefer
LAST NAME: Keefer FIRST NAME: Lois MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 3 Oct 1888 DIED: 6 Apr 1987 BURIED: 8 Apr 1987
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Fruit farm worker
BIRTH PLACE:  Knoxville, Marion Co., Iowa
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
AFB #1038 - Lois Keefer b. Knoxville, Iowa, 3 Oct 1888, d. Salem, Oregon, 6 Apr 1987, interment 8 April 1987 (cremains), next of kin, Mary Keefer of Salem.
1900 IA CENSUS - Lois Keefer, age 11, b. Oct 1889 in Iowa, is enumerated with father Daniel S. Keefer, age 43, occupation farmer, b. Aug 1856 in Pennsylvania, and Myra, age 37, b. Feb, 1863 in Iowa, along with Robert, age 13, b. Jan 1887, Henry S., age 9, b. Dec 1891, Charley A., age 7, b. Dec 1893, and Keneth, age 4, b. Jul 1896, all born in Iowa.
OBITUARY: 
KEIZER--Lois Keefer, 98, of Keizer, died Monday. She was born in Knoxville, Iowa, and had lived in the Salem area since 1904. She worked on a fruit farm and was a member of Jason Lee United Methodist Church, Salem. Survivors include her sisters, Mary Keefer and Irma E. Bunnell, both of Keizer; and brothers, C. M. Keefer, Seymour, Conn., and Royal W. Keefer, Salem. Private memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Mount Crest Abbey Chapel, Salem. Arrangements are by Barrick mortuary there. 
[uncited newspaper clipping attached to authorization for burial]
INSCRIPTION: 
Lois Keefer
Oct. 1888 - Apr. 1987
SOURCES: 
AFB #1038 
1900 IA CENSUS (Marion Co., Washington, ED 58, sheet A1)
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