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Kenneth W. Keeton

FLAT ROCK — Kenneth W.
Keeton, 73, of Flat Rock, a for-
mer city councilman who retired
in 1978 after 39 years as an elec-
trical technician for the Detroit,
Toledo and Ironton Railroad, died
at 8:45 p.m. Saturday in Seaway
Hospital, Trenton. He had been in
poor health for 30 years.

Friends may call until 9 tonight
in the Arthur Bobcean Funeral
Home Inc. He will lie in state
Tuesday in the First United
Methodist Church from 11 a.m.
until services at noon. The Rey.
Alan W. DeGraw will officiate and
burial will be in Michigan Memo-
rial Park.

Born Nov. 17, 1920, in Stotts
City, Mo., he was the son of Harry
A. and Margaret (Marti) Keeton.
He was married Aug. 6, 1950, to
Eleanore Wagner in the First Unit-
ed Methodist Church.

He also installed radios for the
City of Flat Rock motor vehicles.

A World War II Army veteran
from March 23, 1943, to Feb. 25,
1946, he also served in the Kore-
an Conflict.

His memberships included the
First United Methodist Church,
where he served in all offices
where lay members are needed;
Flat Rock City Council from 1961
to 1969; served two years on the
Huron Clinton Watershed; was
union secretary for Local 214;
president of Flat Rock Council,

‘Kiwanis, from 1991 to 1992, anda
member of the DT&I Railroa
Association.

He is survived by his wife; two
sons, Donald of Romulus and
Kenneth D. of Wyandotte; a
daughter, Mrs. Dennis (Mary
Ann) Depras of Brownstown; a
brother, Ralph of Kansas City,
Mo.; two sisters, Ellen Edwards of
San Antonio, Téxas, and Lora
McCoy of Harrisonville, Mo., and
eight grandchildren. ;

He was preceded in death by six
brothers and sisters.

Memorials may be made to the
church.

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