ELMER KELLER

PERRYVILLE -- Funeral Mass for Elmer Joseph Keller of Perryville will be held at 11:30 a.m. today at Miller Family Funeral Home. The Rev. Kevin Fausz will officiate, with burial in Mt. Hope Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home from 6:30-11:20 a.m. The rosary will be recited at 10:30.

Keller, 64, died Monday, July 1, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.

He was born June 11, 1932, in Perry County, son of Conway J. and Mary Jane LaRose Keller. He and Stella Margaret Zahner were married Aug. 25, 1952.

Keller was a self-employed wood hauler.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Richard Keller of Perryville; a daughter, Rita Ruessler of Perryville; two brothers, Donald and Paul Keller of Perryville; five sisters, Pearl Helm of Fredericktown, Rose Cory, Jeanette Miller and Peggy Brown of Perryville, Lillian Brewer of Brewer; six grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents.