Verle Lynn McKeown

Bushnell, SD

1940, 792, Roubaix, F-6,
1940, 792, Rochford, F-25,

ELKTON-Verle L. McKeown, 75, a retired farmer, died Sunday, Aug. 6, 1995, at the Royal C. Johnson Veterans Memorial Hospital in Sioux Falls.

He was born April 16, 1920, in Bushnell. He attended school in Bushnell and White and then began to farm. He entered the Civilian Conservation Corps and worked in the Black Hills and then worked for Boeing in Seattle, Wash.

He married Adell McDowell on April 15, 1942, in Seattle. He served in the Army from Oct. 22, 1942, until June 19, 1943. They returned to South Dakota and farmed in the White and Elkton area. He retired from farming in 1982, and lived in Aurora until 1992, when he entered a nursing home.

He was a member of the Glenn Stafford American Legion Post No. 198 in Elkton, IOOF and a bowling league.

He is survived by two sons: James of Aurora and Darrell of Brookings; five daughters: Mrs. Wayne (Joyce) Larson and Mrs. Chad (Jane) Kono, both of Brookings; Mrs. Joe (Dorie) Kramer of Alvord, Iowa; Mrs. Don (Judi) DeZeeuw of Lake Poinsett; and Mrs. Chuck (Debra) Bell of El Dorado, Calif.; 18 grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; two brothers: E.B. "Bus" of Elkton and Wayne of Brookings; and two sisters: Thallis Jensen of White and Dolores Branson of Oxnard, Calif. Services will begin at 10 a.m. Tuesday at United Parish Church in Elkton, with burial in the Elkton City Cemetery.

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