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STANLEY KELLER
February 19, 1999
Stanley Dale Keller, 72, of Fairmount Township, Benton R.R. 1, died Friday
at his home. He had been in declining health since 1993Born Sept. 30, 1926, in
Mooretown, he was a son of the Late Stanley W. and Sara Mae (Dymond) Keller.
He was a 1945 graduate of Lehman High School.
He was employed for nine years in the maintenance department of Bercon
Packaging in Berwick, retiring in 1979. Prior to that, he had served 20 years
as Fairmount Township supervisor. He was previously self-employed as a milk
truck driver, worked for the Press-Enterprise as a delivery man for six years,
and worked with the Alfred Bronson Funeral Home in Sweet Valley.
He was a member of Bethel Hill United Methodist Church, where he was
involved with the ice cream socials.
He was a Cottage Holders Trustee of Patterson Grove Campground in
Harveyville; a member and past president of the Sweet Valley Fire Co.; a
member of the North Mountain Fire Co. and the Fairmount Township Fire Co.,
where he was a director; and a member of the Pennsylvania, Columbia County and
Luzerne County Fire Police.
Surviving are his wife, the former Phoebe A. Harvey, with whom he would
have celebrated their 49th wedding anniversary this June; sons, Alvin R.,
Sugarloaf; David A., Fairmount Township; and Brian D., Gordon; daughters, Mae
Ann Yeager, Kathy I. Halm and Patsy A. Smith, all of Fairmount Springs; 12
grandchildren, one great-grandchild and three stepgrandchildren; and siblings,
Alma Covert, Hunlock Creek, Hunlock Township; Francis E. Keller, Deposit,
N.Y.; and H. Ammetta Harvey, Raven Creek.
Funeral Services will be at 8:30 p.m. Sunday at the McMichael Funeral Home,
Benton, R.R. 2, with the Rev. David H. Diehl, chaplain of the Columbia Montour
Home Health Hospice, officiating.
Friends may call from 7 p.m. until the time of services Sunday.
Burial will be at the convenience of the family.
Memorial donations may be made to Columbia Montour Home Health Hospice,
Locust Court, Suite One, 599 E. Seventh St., Bloomsburg, 17815-2885; or to the
American Heart Association, 71 N. Franklin St., Wilkes-Barre, 18701; or to the
Patterson Grove Campground, R.R. 2, Shickshinny, 18655.—–