Palestine High School Alumni Association

09 / 07 / 1890  –  07 / 13 / 1973

Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. today in Bailey Memorial Chapel for Miss Vinnie Keller, longtime member of the First Christian Church staff here.  Dr. Robert L. Badgett, former minister at First Christian Church will officiate at the service.  Burial will be in East Hill Cemetery.

Miss Keller died Friday morning at her home on north Houston street from an apparent heart attack.  Miss Keller was born September 7, 1890 in Selma, Alabama, the daughter of the late W.V. and Henrietta Bishop Keller.  She moved to Palestine when she was a small child and lived here most of her life. She studied at the Ft. Worth Conservatory of Music and later was a choir director at the First Christian Church in Ft. Worth.  She was a longtime member of the First Christian Church of Palestine and served on the staff as organist, choir director and church secretary.  She was also an active member of the Guion Music Club.

Survivors include a sister, Mrs. Bonner Frizzell of Palestine and two nieces, Mrs. W.W. Davis of San Antonio and Mrs. R. C. Royston of Eugene, Oregon.

Source:  Palestine Herald Press