BX May 28, 1917

Signaller Keen Headed the List

Signaller Frank Keen elder son of Mr. and Mrs. George Keen, who enlisted at 17 years of age in the first year of the war with Brantford’s half of the 13th Battery, and who was much its youngest member, recently passed an examination at a signal school in France in completion with men drawn from all sections of the Canadian Corps, and with soldiers from the British regular army who had been doing nothing but that kind of work for years before the war.  Signaller Keen was highly complimented on his achievement in passing the examination at the head of the list and the fact was recorded in battery orders.

BX July 5, 1980

KEEN, Frank Joseph – On Thursday, July 3, 1980 at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Hamilton, in his 84 year, Frank Keen; beloved husband of the late Frances Welsh; dear father of Marjorie (Mrs. John DeBow) of Penetanguishene; Patricia (Mrs. Vincent Miller) of Simcoe; Frances (Mrs. James Waugh) of Ottawa; Barbara (Mrs. Daniel Ford) of Oakville; dear bother of Patricia J. Keen of Brantford; dear grandfather of 13 grandchildren.  He was a former city editor of the Hamilton Spectator and worked and was connected with the Spectator for over 50 years.  He served overseas during the Second World War in the 40th Battery Artillery Division, Hamilton unit as Lt.-Col.  During the First World War he served overseas with the 13th Battery.  Funeral, 10 a.m. Monday, from the Markey-Dermody Funeral Home, 7 East Avenue South, Hamilton to Regina Mundi Church for mass of Christian Burial at 10.30 a.m.  Interment Holy Sepulcher Cemetery.  Recitation of the rosary, Sunday at 8 p.m. (Visiting on Saturday and Sunday from 12 to 9 p.m.)