Thomas County GaArchives Obituaries.....Johnnie Boyd Keene  June 29 2003
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Thomasville Times Enterprise - June 30, 2003

Services for Johnnie Boyd Keene, 85, are at 11 a.m., Tuesday, July 1, 2003 at 
Pine Hill Baptist Church, Lower Hawthorn Trail. Interment will be in the 
church cemetery. Active pallbearers are John Keene, Russell Moore, Neal 
Baggett, Lloyd Baggett, Bobby Brady and Kenneth Griffin. Honorary pallbearers 
are deacons of Pine Hill Baptist Church, Robert Gainey, Robert Lee, Jerry Lee, 
Lee Sessions, Hilmon Cook, Leonard Maxwell and Winifred Lee. Mr. Keene died 
Sunday, June 29 at Grady General Hospital in Cairo. He was born Sept. 16, 1917 
in Holmes Couny, Fla. He was a lifelong resident of Grady County, a retired 
farmer and a member of Pine Hill Baptist Church. He served two years in the 
Civilian Conservation Corps. During World War II he served four years in the 
United States Army, Company D, 199 Medical Battalion as a medical aid man, 
surgical technician, cook's helper and a cook in northern France, the 
Rhineland region and central Europe. He was decorated with the European-
African-Middle Eastern Ribbon with three Bronze Stars, Good Conduct Medal, one 
service stripe and one overseas bar. Survivors include a daughter and son-in-
law, Linda Keene O'Brien and Gearl H. O'Brien of Cairo; his daughter-in-law, 
Janice H. Keene of Cairo; three grandchildren, John Walter Keene of Cairo, 
Ruby Lois Keene Moore (wife of Russell Thomas Moore) of Meigs, Gearl H. "Gary" 
O'Brien III of Birmingham, Ala.; a great-granddaughter, Savannah Leanne Moore 
of Meigs; four sisters, Ola Irene Keene Albritton of Milan, Gladys Virginia 
Keene Ard of DeFuniak Springs, Fla., Edyce Mae Keene Reynolds of Climax and 
Mary Marie Keene Brady Hewitt of Cairo. He was preceded in death by his 
parents, Daniel Kenith Keene and Savannah Elizabeth Scott Keene both of Grady 
County; his wife, Lois Elmire Baggett Keene (daughter of William Franklin 
Baggett and Katie May Bishop of Grady County); a son, Johnny Jerome Keene; a 
grandson, John Nicholas O'Brien; three brothers, Joseph Daniel Keene, William 
Clyde Keene and Delmar Washington Keene; and sisters, Clara Lou Keene 
(infant), Sarah Susan Keene Norton and Ethel Elizabeth Keene Collins. -- 
Heritage Funeral Home

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