Dickie Keene

The funeral for Dickie Joe Keene of Cape Girardeau will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Jackson. Monsignor Ed Eftink will officiate. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery in Cape Girardeau.

Friends may call at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday. Parish prayers will be at 6 p.m., Elks service at 7, and Masonic service following.

Keene, 54, died Saturday, Oct. 26, 2002, at his home.

He was born July 20, 1948, at Benton, Mo., son of Lloyd and Mary D. Gunter Keene. He and Debbie K. Seabaugh were married Sept. 2, 1978, at Jackson.

Keene was a 1966 graduate of Puxico High School, and attended Southeast Missouri State University. He was manager of Cape Tractor Trailer Supply 22 years.

He was a member of Immaculate Conception Church, Elks Lodge 639 in Cape Girardeau, and Masonic Lodge 590 in Advance, Mo.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Lance Cpl. John Keene of Camp Lejeune, N.C.; his mother, Mary McFarland of Marble Hill, Mo.; two brothers, Lloyd David and Kevin Keene of Advance.

He was preceded in death by his father and a sister.