Richard George "Dick" Keefer

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Husband Richard George "Dick" Keefer ¹

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           Born: 11 Apr 1923 2
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           Died: 20 May 1944
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         Father: George Crispin Keefer (1893-1977) 1
         Mother: Vera M. Terwilliger (      -1977) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Richard George "Dick" Keefer

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He entered the service during World War II on July 6, 1942, after graduating from Parker High School. He trained in the Air Force and flew 100 missions. He was the only member of the crew to survive a crash landing in a sandstorm, during a flight from Dakar across North Africa in 1943. He was lost on May 20, 1944, during a raid over Dieppe, France, when his plane went down over the English Channel. All members of the crew were lost in the plane, a Marauder Bomber. He was awarded the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Silver Star and a posthumous award of the Purple Heart. He was 22 years old.

A stone in memory of him and his brother Jack is placed in the Concord Cemetery, near West Freedom, Pennsylvania.

1 Estella B. Keefer, The Keefer Family: Jacob & Catharina 1791 - 1976 (Franklin, PA: Privately Published, 1976), Pg 47.

2 Estella B. Keefer, The Keefer Family: Jacob & Catharina 1791 - 1976 (Franklin, PA: Privately Published, 1976), Pg 97.