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May 1987 A combined funeral and memorial service for Mrs. Enid Betty Keene, 74, co-founder of Walnut Acres in Penns Creek, was held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Emmanuel Church of Christ, Penns Creek, with the Rev. Steven Hoffman and Rev J. Odell Zechman officiating. Burial was made in Penns Creek Union Cemetery. Mrs. Keene died early Thursday evening, May 28 in Evangelical Community Hospital, Lewisburg. Born Aug. 23, 1912, in New Delhi, India she was the daughter of the late Rev. and Mrs. David Thomas Morgan, who were British missionaries in India for 45 years. She was educated in several boarding schools in India and received her college degree from Women's Christian College in Madras, South India. She spent a number of years teaching at the Woodstock School in Landour, Mussoorie, India. Woodstock was a boarding school started many years ago to educate children of all races whose parents were missionaries, business people and government officials. It was begun and run primarily by American and British citizens, and it prepared pupils for entrance to colleges in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. Mrs. Keene met her husband-to-be, Paul Keene, in 1938 when he was sent by the Methodist Board of Foreign Missions to spend two years teaching at Woodstock. They were married in 1940 in Bangalore, South India, in the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where her father was pastor. In addition to her husband, she is survived by three daughters Marjorie Ann Hartley of Pittsburgh, Ruth Anderson of Middleburg RD2, and Dr. Jocelyn Keene Phillips of Pasadena, Calif; and five grandchildren. She was a member of Emmanuel United Church of Christ in Penns Creek, and she was involved in many areas of church work. She was active in school and community affairs. Walnut Acres, founded in 1946, is a natural foods farm, processing plant and distribution center that sends its products all over the world. |