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From the Barbourville Mountain Advocate January 20, 2005


Irene Elam Keene

Irene Elam Keene, 78, of Gray, passed away Thursday, Jan. 6, 2005 in Baptist Regional Medical Center in Corbin. She was a daughter of the late Walter and Ida Owens Elam. Her husband, Jess Keene, preceded her in death. She was a member of Living Waters Pentecostal church where she was a Sunday school teacher. She was a former custodian for the Ohio School System. She is survived by her mother, Ida Johnson; two daughters, Doris Keene and Bobby Angel; two sons, Vernon Keene and Harold Keene and wife Ginger; two brothers, Kenneth Elam and wife Leona and Jim Elam and wife Mary Lou; five sisters, Lola Linville, Ethel Barnes, Tina Jones and husband Haskel, Joy Watson, Norma Warren and husband Woodrow; 12 grandchildren; 10 great grandchildren. Services were conducted at Living Waters Pentecostal Church, at Gray, Sunday, Jan. 9 with the Revs. Charlie Humfleet, Kenny Johnson and Lonnie Collett officiating. Hampton Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.



     

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