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Lt. Keister Died inCl'J ’ -fia,a»* * His Wife is InformedWord - was received from the; d» « i lwar department late last week by, i, Mrs, J. E. Keister that tier , hus- a band, Lt. .Jordan E. Keister, pre- h viously reported as missing in ac- t tion since'his plane was struck by e flak over northern Italy March 10, | p 1945, “died in action March 24j a prisoner of the German govern-1 Y triont.” • ’ * , iLt. Keister, 24, was the* only c child of Mr. and Mrs. E. J,.Keister s of Valley City, N, D.,' where he j * was born*. He’attended school and college there. At the time of his induction in the army he was employed by the U. S. fish and wildlife service at Upham, N. D, '11 * He received his commissionSeptember^ 12, 1942,, at the ad-mored force officer's’ candidateitclt;Jschool at Fort Knox, Ky., and was married; the same day at Louis-, vilie, Ky., to Miss Vivian Anderson, formerly, yof Valley .City/CI / He transferred to the air corps i in -May, 1943, and received iris i pilot's wings at Columbus, Mi§s., m January 17, 1944.'He left the United States for combat duty 11 September 6, 1944, the'day after his son, Larry Jordan, was bqrn at Greenville, S* C.,il ,He fleW some,40 missions, and \ had an award for precision bomb-t j ing to his .credit when shot down. Two other raembers*pf_the*creW* met the same fate a$*fLt.2 Keister., l*R^att^es*hiid7\vrUtei| Mrs.;Keister hero of having received like messages- from the war 'department, n One other member of the crew *| of his bomber was‘ reported as having “died oftwounds April 6 and one' “died of wounds earlier. So far five of the six members of his crew were accounted .for* Besides his wife, yivian, a member of the Sandpoint high -1 school faculty, who, with her son,t makes her home with her parents, e I Mr. and Mrs. S. V. Anderson, Lt. Keister is survived by his parents.Mrs. ‘Keister received a letter*' from the war department Wednesday giving more complete details of the death of her . husband. The letter informed her that her husband was, a prisoner being transported to a camp in the interior of Germany when the train was bombed and he. died in the resulting action*Ji(rdob#itis*0e
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Sandpoint News Bulletin
Sandpoint, Idaho, US
Thu, Nov 08, 1945
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