| Elizabeth Keeler
Elizabeth M. Keeler, 98, of Rock Island, died Sunday, March
20, 2005, at Heartland Health Care Center, Moline.
Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Pius X
Catholic Church, Rock Island. Visitation will be 4 to 7:30 p.m. today at
Wheelan Funeral Home, Rock Island, with a prayer service at 5 p.m.
Burial will be at Mount Calvary Cemetery, Davenport. Memorials may be
made to the church or a favorite charity.
Mrs. Keeler was born Oct. 19, 1906, in Washington, Iowa, daughter
of Joseph L. and Teresa Wheelan Lohberger. She married Daniel R. Keeler
April 30, 1930, in Rock Island. He died Dec. 5, 1993.
Elizabeth was a registered nurse, graduating in 1926 from the
former St. Anthony's School of Nursing in Rock Island. She was a charter
member of St. Pius X Catholic Church, a member of the Altar and Rosary
Society, and a member of the former Villa de Chantal Guild, Huber Home
Guild and Notre Dame Wives Auxiliary. She loved spending time with her
grandchildren and great-grandchildren and she enjoyed flower gardening.
Elizabeth is survived by daughters and spouses, Sally and Paul
Boehmer, Highland Park, Ill., Jeanne and Thomas Schebler, Davenport;
grandchildren, Daniel Zonnevylle, Illinois City, Susan Hoornbeck,
Harrisburg, N.C., Beth Meza, Tracey, Calif., Anne Moore, Kansas City,
Mo., Allison Schebler, Des Moines, Iowa; stepgranddaughter, Debra
Boehmer, Greenfield, Wis.; great-grandchildren, Tyler and Kaitlyn
Zonnevylle, Heather Holland and Savannah Meza; sister, Mrs. Matilda
Bacon, Moline. She was preceded by brother and sisters, John Lohberger,
Bertha Morris, Katherine Kehoe and Martha Lohberger.
(Rock Island Argus, Tuesday, March 22, 2005) |
