KELLER, John Thomas - WWI - Putnam

Services for John Thomas Keller, 67, former Indianapolis fireman who died yesterday in Billings Veterans Administration Hospital after several month’s illness, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in Whitaker Funeral Home, Cloverdale. Burial will be in the Cloverdale Cemetery. Mr. Keller was a fireman at Engine House 22 for 1 0 years until 1917 when he took lease (leave?) from the Indianapolis Fire Dept to serve overseas with the Army. Following his discharge in 1919, he lived on a farm near Cloverdale until two years ago when he went to Arizona. Mr. Keller was a member of the Cloverdale Masonic Lodge, a past commander of the Cloverdale American Legion Post and a member of the Valley Baptist Church, near Cloverdale. Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Edna May Keller and a son, Albert E. Keller.  – kbz