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Enid, Oklahoma April 1981 Feberuary 23, 1901 ~ April 20, 1981 Clark Cecil Keepers married Augusta Madeline Dunlop May 2, 1923 in Enid, Garfield, Oklahoma. Together they had and raised five children, Patricia Ruth, Stanley Millard, Vernon Dale, Alma Mae and Carl Wayne. |
© Enid Morning News Enid, Oklahoma November 1978 August 23, 1907 ~ November 28, 1978 Funeral services for Mrs Clark C. Keepers, 71, Route 4, will be at 3 PM Friday in the Henninger – Allen Funeral Home Chapel. Brigadier Jack Key will officiate and burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Mrs Keepers died Tuesday in a local hospital. She was born August 23, 1907, on a farm south of Hillsdale and attended the Lacy rural school in District 15. She and Clark C. Keepers were married May 2, 1923, in Enid. They established a home north of Enid and moved into town about 1926. Mrs Keepers owned and operated a laundry here for several years. She attended church at the Salvation Army Citadel. In addition to her husband, Mrs Keepers is survived by two sons, Carl of Enid and Vernon, Boise City; two daughters, Mrs Pat Quintanilla, Enid, and Mrs. Loren [Alma] Koerner, New Brockton, Alabama; 13 grandchildren; 10 great grandchildren; a brother, Harry Dunlap, Moab, Utah; two sisters, Mrs May Robinson, Sacramento, California, and Mrs. George [Delcia] Neeman, Enid. |
Enid, Oklahoma August 1999 April 16, 1924 ~ August 31, 1999 Enid OK Carl Wayne Keepers was a Marine in World War II. He enlisted February 7, 1943 at the age 18 and was a Marine paratrooper and machine gunner corporal. On November 29, 1943 he was wounded in the leg by a Japanese soldier in Bougainville, off the coast of New Guinea. Carl returned to combat February 1945 with the 4th Marine Division and was deployed to Iwo Jima. On March 11, 1945, at age 20, he was severely wounded in head, chest and right shoulder by flying shrapnel when a Japanese tank blew up. Carl laid critically wounded at the bottom of a hill while his fellow soldiers flew the American flag triumphantly over Japanese soil. Carl's wounds were critical and he laid unconsciousness for two months. The doctors had to leave shards of metal in his head and when he awoke, Carl was paralyzed on his right side and had stilted and halting speech. The doctors said he would not live ten years. Carl's fiancé abandoned him and he never married or had children. He lived the remainder of his life in Oklahoma dying at the age of 75. On March 29, 1995, fifty years late, Carl received his long over due medals: Purple Heart with a Gold Star Asiatic Pacific ribbon American Campaign medal Presidential Unit Citation Medal Honorable Service Lapel Button US Marine Corps Honorable Discharge Button |
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