EL CERRITIO, June 18—Masonic services will be conducted tomorrow for Lieut. Cmdr. Lyle J. Keune, 50, Coast Guard engineer officer at Government Island, Alameda, who succumbed on Monday to a heart attack at the Marine Hospital in San Francisco.
Commander Keune, who lived at 409 Balra Drive, was due to retire from the Coast Guard in two years after 30 years of service. In World War II, Commander Keune saw service in battle areas in the South Pacific, France and Italy transporting troops. A native of Michigan, he was a member of Evergreen Masonic Lodge No. 51, Tacoma, Wash.; Wareham Royal Arch Chapter of Masons, Marion, Mass.; a second degree member of Oakland Scottish Rite, Knights Templar Commandery of Massachusetts; Aahmes Temple, Mystic Shrine, Oakland, and American Legion Post No. 29 of Port Angeles, Wash.
A resident of the Bay area during his various service assignments, Commander Keune had made his home here for the past three years. Surviving are his widow, Lillian C. Keune, and two sisters, Mrs. Lillian von Dohlen and Mrs. Tess Paggeot, and a brother, Fred Keune, all of Seattle.
Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. at The Little Chapel of the Flowers, Adeline Street at Ashby Station, Berkeley, with the Coast Guard officiating at burial rites in Sunset View Cemetery.
[Published in the Oakland Tribune (Oakland, CA): Thursday, June 18, 1953, page 36, columns 1-4.]
EL CERRITIO, June 18—Masonic services will be conducted tomorrow for Lieut. Cmdr. Lyle J. Keune, 50, Coast Guard engineer officer at Government Island, Alameda, who succumbed on Monday to a heart attack at the Marine Hospital in San Francisco.
Commander Keune, who lived at 409 Balra Drive, was due to retire from the Coast Guard in two years after 30 years of service. In World War II, Commander Keune saw service in battle areas in the South Pacific, France and Italy transporting troops. A native of Michigan, he was a member of Evergreen Masonic Lodge No. 51, Tacoma, Wash.; Wareham Royal Arch Chapter of Masons, Marion, Mass.; a second degree member of Oakland Scottish Rite, Knights Templar Commandery of Massachusetts; Aahmes Temple, Mystic Shrine, Oakland, and American Legion Post No. 29 of Port Angeles, Wash.
A resident of the Bay area during his various service assignments, Commander Keune had made his home here for the past three years. Surviving are his widow, Lillian C. Keune, and two sisters, Mrs. Lillian von Dohlen and Mrs. Tess Paggeot, and a brother, Fred Keune, all of Seattle.
Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. at The Little Chapel of the Flowers, Adeline Street at Ashby Station, Berkeley, with the Coast Guard officiating at burial rites in Sunset View Cemetery.
[Published in the Oakland Tribune (Oakland, CA): Thursday, June 18, 1953, page 36, columns 1-4.]
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