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Willie L. Keene - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Vicksburg Evening Post, September 9, 1987

TALLULAH, La. - Services for Mr. Willie L. Keene will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday at 
Friendship Baptist Church Cemetery near Baskin, La., with Rev. James Johnson officiating. 
Burial will be under the direction of Crothers Funeral Home.

Mr. Keene died Monday Sept. 7, 1987, at Madison Parish Hospital In Tallulah after a long 
illness. He was 66.

Mr. Keene was born in Pokeville, Miss., and had been a resident of Tallulah for the past 
seven years.

Survivors Include his wife, Mrs. Omega Keene of Tallulah; three sons, Tommy Keene and 
Michael Keene, both of Vicksburg; and Elvis Keene of Clanton, Ala.; four daughters, Brenda 
Joyce Meadows and Nancy Carol Foster, both of Vicksburg; Gloria A. Ragsdale of Winterpark, 
Fla.; and Suzanne Harkins of Ashville, N.C.; two brothers, Leo Russell Keene of Sulphur, 
La.; and Lefay Newton Keene of Corsicana, Texas; one sister, Janie Walker of Sulphur; 13 
grandchildren and two great grandchildren. 

Pallbearers will be Eugene Meadows, John R. Richards and Jimmy Shivers.


From Tallulah Madison Journal, September 9, 1987

Graveside services for Mr. Willie L. Keene, 66, will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday at the Friendship 
Baptist Church Cemetery near Baskin with Rev. James Johnson officiating. Burial will be under direction 
of Crothers Funeral Home of Tallulah.

Mr. Keene died Monday night at the Madison Parish Hospital after a lengthy illness.

He was a native of Mississippi and had been a resident of Tallulah for the past seven years.

Survivors include his wife Mrs. Omega Keene of Tallulah; three sons, Tommy Keene and Michael Keene, 
both of Vicksburg; Elvis Keene of Clanton, Ala.; four daughters, Brenda Joyce Meadows and Nancy Carol Foster, 
both of Vicksburg; Gloria A. Ragsdale of Winterpark, Florida, and Suzanne Harkins of Asheville, N.C.; 
two brothers, Leo Russell Keene of Sulphur, and Lefay Newton Keene of Corsicana, Tex.: one sister, 
Janie Walker of Sulphur; 13 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.