Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection

MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 2/ /1973

CARL F. KEINER DIES AT AGE 72

Greenwood--Services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 17, at the Sacred Heart Catholic church in Eau Claire for Carl Frederick Keiner, 72, of 702 N. Dewey St., Eau Claire, a former Greenwood, Clark County resident, who die in his sleep Wednesday morning, Feb. 14, 1973, at his home. Burial will be made in the Eau Claire Cemetery.

A rosary service will be conducted at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Prock Funeral Home in Eau Claire.

He was born June 26, 1900, at Athens and received his education in the public schools there. On Aug. 6, 1928, at Winona, Minn., he was married to the former Florence Etta, who survives him.

He lived in Athens until 1920, and then moved to Chippewa Falls and Loyal. In 1922 he came to Greenwood, where he was in the meat marketing business with his father and brothers, Christ and Henry Keiner. He then moved to Eau Claire in 1935, where he was employed at the Gillette Rubber Company until his retirement.

In addition to his wife, survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Patricia Black and Mrs. Mary McCann, both of Eau Claire, and Mrs. Donald (Marlys) Gudmanson, of Beavers Dam fours sisters, Miss Louis Keiner and Mrs. Hugh (Freda) Severson, both of Greenwood, Mrs. Martha C. Corbin, of Milwaukee, and Mrs. Frederick (Edith) Gotz, of Pittsville and 10 grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, a brother, Henry, and a granddaughter, Barbara Black.