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SGT Charles Chester Keith
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Rank / Rate SGT War of Service WWI Date of birth Mar 11, 1905 Place of birth / home town Elida Family Members PARENTS: Rezin Jasper Keith, Katherina Almeda May Keith; SIBLINGS: Arnold Ray Keith, Clemmie Keith, Dorothy Olive Keith Godfrey, Marcia Louise Keith Baker High School Elida Enlistment Date Branch Army Service Number Unit / Ship / duty Station MED. DET. 360, INF Date of Casuality Nov 23, 1918 Cause of Death or Status DOW Place of Incident France Place of Burial or Memorial Awards ★ Purple Heart, ★ WWI Victory Medal  Links to More Information Do you have information about this veteran we don’t have? Click Here --→ https://allencountyveterans.org/contact |
| Lima News, Sunday, January 16, 1921, p. 1 * BODY OF HERO OF WAR IN ROUTE Chester Keith Died of Wounds - Body Here To-Day Body of Chester C. Keith, who died in a base hospital in France on November 23, 1918, will arrive in Lima Sunday at 11:34 a.m. over the Pennsylvania from New York. It recently arrived in the United States. The body will remain at the Long and Bowerseek mortuary, S. Main st. until Monday, when it will be accompanied to the home of the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Resin Keith, five miles west of Elida. Keith was a member of the 360th medical department and on November 3, 1918, was wounded by shrapnell and died twenty days later of his injuries. Besides his parents, he is survived by a brother, Arnold, and two sisters, Mrs. Bruce Gottfrey and Mrs. Clarence Baker, both of Lima. Military funeral services will be held at Zion M.E. church, west of Elida, Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. Interment will be in Auglaize cemetery. Taps will be sounded as the body is being consigned to its last resting-place. |
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