W. L. Keener's Rites Planned

Funeral services for W. L. Keener Jr., 37, who was killed Wednesday in a construction accident near Burkburnett, Wichita County, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the McCullough Chapel, Mesquite.
The Rev. Bailey E. Smith will officiate, and burial will be in the Carrollton Cemetery.
Keener, who lived at 8419 John Rowland Road with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Keener, was helping dismantle a water tower when a large wooden beam tore loose and fell on him. He had been employed by Dallas Contractor W. W. Roberston on an oil pipe salvage project for the last eight weeks.

The Dallas Morning News - January 29, 1954
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

"Accident Kills County Man
W. L. KEENER Jr., 37, of 8419 John Rowland Road, was killed about noon Wednesday in a construction accident three miles northwest of Burkburnett, Wichita County.
KEENER, who had been employed by Dallas Contractor W. W. ROBERTSON on an oil pipe salvage project for the last eight weeks, was helping dismantle a water tower when a large wooden beam tore loose and fell on him.
KEENER was born on his father's farm near Carrollton and went to school in Coppell. He had lived in Dallas County all of his life. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. KEENER, of 8419 John Rowland Road, survive.
Other survivors include four brothers, Alvie KEENER, Jack KEENER, John KEENER and R. B. KEENER, and four sisters, Mrs. Thelma ANDERSON, Mrs. Nannie FIFIELD, Mrs. Mae HALL and Mrs. Eva Jo LEUBNER, all of Dallas.
Funeral arrangements will be handled by McCullough Funeral Home of Mequite."

Dallas (TX) Morning News newspaper, Thursday, 28 JAN 1954, Part 1, p. 9.

IN MEMORY
WILLIAM L. KEENER, JR.
1915 - 1954

Hilltop Memorial Park, Carrollton, Dallas County, Texas