Keck, Richard William

1925 - 2001  (75 years)

• Name	Keck, Richard William  [1]
  Birth	11 May 1925	Austin, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Birth	Abt 11 May 1925	Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA   [2]
  Residence	Between 1930 and 1944	Austin, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA   [1]
  _MILT	Between 28 Sep 1944 and 28 Feb 1945  [1]
  _MILT	28 Sep 1944	Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA   [1]
  Accident	11 Jan 1949	Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA   [2, 3]
  	Son Tommy, Age: 2y 6m 2d accidental drowning in public (Allegany) river - Robt S. McLaughlin, coroner
  	20210824GHLn- Thomas Richard Keck in the Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1967 Name: Thomas Richard Keck Gender: Male Race: White Age: 2y 6m 2d Birth: 9 Jul 1946 Coudersport, Pennsylvania res: 311 Eulalia ST, Coudersport Death: 11 Jan 1949 0700h 311 Eulalia ST Coudersport, Potter, Penna (home) cause: Asphyxia 1 3/4 hr due to: strangulation due to: Drowning E929.8 accident, public river signed: Robt S. McLaughlin, Coroner Shinglehouse Father: Richard Keck Mother: Marian Elizabeth Shelley inform: Richard Keck Coudersport burial: 1-14-49 Austin registrar: Dorothy N? Jacobs Certificate: 5805 Source Citation Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission; Harrisburg, PA; Pennsylvania (State). Death Certificates, 1906-1968; Certificate Number Range: 003751-006300 Source Information Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1967 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Pennsylvania (State). Death certificates, 1906-1968. Series 11.90 (1,905 cartons). Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. _____________ 20210824GHLn- Tommy Keck, 2 1/2, Drowns After Leap Into River; Physician, Others Fight futilely to Revive Him. CLIPPED FROM The Potter Enterprise Coudersport, Pennsylvania 13 Jan 1949, Thu • Page 1 BYwetzupdoc · 24 Aug 2021 Coudersport Boy, 2 1/2, Drowns After Leap Into River; Physician, Others Fight to Revive Him Son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Keck Fails to Respond After Hour and Half - Jumps Into River, 4-Year-Old Playmate Says - Father Discovers Child in Shallows Downstream - In Water About Half an Hour. Death by drowning came to a 2 1/2-year-old Coudersport boy Tuesday night, tragic aftermath of a plunge into the Allegheny River. The tiny victim, Thomas R. Keck, was found about 250 yards downstream by his father, Richard Keck, about 5:20 p. m., less than 20 minutes after the boy was discovered missing. A physician, police, firemen and a telephone company worker rendered artificial resuscitation for an 1 hour and a half, but the boy failed to respond. He was pronounced dead at 6:50 p. m. Grief-stricken parents sat in a darkened room of the Keck home, on Eulalia St., hopeful to the last that efforts being made in an adjoining room to revive their only child would be successful. The drowning was listed as accidental. The only witness was a four-year-old playmate and neighbor, whose story that "Tommie stood on the fence, jumped into the river" led to the discovery of the child lying in a shallow place in the stream. The mother told police that she missed her son around 5 p. m. As she started a search, Yvonne Lamb, 12, who lives next door, told Mrs. Keck that her son's playmate, Edward Easton, had run to his home, adjoining that of the Lambs, and exclaimed, "Tommie jumped into the river." The Lamb girl was running to inform Mrs. Keck when they met. According to the Easton child's story, they had been playing along the river, which flows at the rear about 250-300 feet away, when, for no assignable reason, the Keck boy climbed onto a fence and leaped into the stream. The water at that point is about five feet deep and almost sluggish. The Easton boy later said that he tried vainly to pull his playmate from the water before running home to tell what had happened. He said "Tommie cried for help when he went in." The father ran to the river.-Neighbors joined in the search, tery, at Austin. made difficult by darkness. White boots the boy was wearing led to his discovery in the river at the rear of the Simmons barn. Lifting the unconscious child from the water, the father raced back to their home and summoned State police. Corp. George A. Auten and Pvt. Michael C. Evelock responded. In the meantime, a call had been put in for firemen to Join the search. Dr. H. C. Mosch arrived shortly after the police and began artificial respiration and administered adrenalin directly into the child's heart muscles. Firemen, who arrived shortly after, assisted. Later, an inhalator owned by the fire department was rushed to the Keck home and put Into operation. David M. Larson, of Bradford, a telephone company employe who said that, as a child, he had been pulled from a stream and revived after three hours, and Dr. Mosch, worked tirelessly over the boy. In a final desperate effort to revive the child, Dr. Mosch administered a second ampule of adrenalin. Meanwhile, scores of neighbors and friends, gathered outside at windows and doors, watched silently and hopefully, as the drama inside unfolded. One who was not present was "Eddie" Easton. He was sleeping soundly, unaware that his little sandy-haired playmate never again would rush into the Easton home and call out, "Where's Eddie." The mother, the former Marion Shelley, of Eldred, sobbed uncontrollably when efforts to revive the boy were abandoned as hopeless. The bereaved woman's husband, his mother and the Rev. Gordon W. Loomis, who was among the first to arrive when word of the tragedy spread, did all they could to comfort her. Thomas was born at Coudersport on July 9, 1946. He was the Keck's third child. Two children born previously died at birth. A funeral service will be held at the residence at 2 p. m. tomorrow (Friday), with Rev. Loomis officiating. The Grabe Funeral Home will conduct the service. Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery, at Austin. Survivors also include his grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Shelley of Eldred. Clipping location on The Potter Enterprise page 1 CLIPPED FROM The Potter Enterprise Coudersport, Pennsylvania 13 Jan 1949, Thu • Page 1 BYwetzupdoc · 24 Aug 2021
  Name	Richard Keck  [2]
  Residence	Between 1950 and 1983	Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA   [1]
  _EMPLOY	Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA   [4]
  	Potter County Garage
  	20220412GHLn- Ken Cole/Coudersport Remember When... March 31 at 9:10 PM · 2022 Found this in an old box of stuff. L to R, kneeling: L.(?) Burt, T.Troy, A. Burdick, A.Bunnell, unknown. Standing: unknown, P. Bradish, Eddy ?, R. Keck, F. Cole (my dad). (to the best of my recollection) Potter County Garage, at the north east corner of E.2nd & N.East streets, across from the jail. There is a grassy lot there now. Cathy Greeley Owens The man on bottom right kneeling is my father in law Lewis Owens. He had the same picture. 15 Comments Jim Linn Where was this? Reply1w Ken Cole Author Jim Linn This was taken in front of the Potter County Garage, at the north east corner of E.2nd & N.East streets, across from the jail. There is a grassy lot there now. Reply1w Jim Linn I was thinking that was it, but also was thinking it may have been the Pontiac garage @ main and Allegany. Thank you for clarifying. We built our 8th or 9th grade homecoming float in the Potter Co Garage. Reply1wEdited Cathy Greeley Owens The man on bottom right kneeling is my father in law Lewis Owens. He had the same picture. Reply1w Cathy Greeley Owens they all worked at potter county garage Reply1w Jami Lynne Nancy Kueter Tara Troy Reply1w Julie Page When men were men Reply1w Jay Young Julie Page We aren't anymore? Reply1w Julie Page Jay Young I didn't mean it that way. Back then most of the men worked like that. Bc there weren't as many opportunities for them. How many young men today would choose to pump gas for someone. You are the man Jay Young. Reply1w Nancy Lanzillo Reply1w Jay Young Julie Page I know was just kidding Reply1w Julie Page Jay Young Reply1w Margaret Blake-Caldwell Top row first on the right is my husband Ralph (Rocky) Caldwell. Third on top is Ed Hirum not sure of the spelling. Ralph gave a copy of this picture to Fezz and it hangs in the diner in the back wall under sign that says "Potter County Garage." Reply1wEdited John C Wetzel So, top right, F. Cole or Rocky Caldwell? Reply6h Ken Cole Author John C Wetzel Fred Cole. Reply13m
  Death	30 Mar 2001	Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA   [1]
  	age 75
  Burial	Aft 30 Mar 2001	Austin, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I86897	WETZEL-SPRING

  
  

  Father	Keck, Frederick William,   b. 2 Feb 1885, Port Allegany, McKean, Pennsylvania, USA d. 20 Mar 1941, Austin, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 56 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Haskins, Mable Myrtle,   b. 22 Aug 1887, Costello, Portage, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA d. 4 Sep 1962, Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 75 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1906	Pennsylvania, USA
  Family ID	F39513	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Shelley, Marian Elizabeth,   b. 8 Jan 1923, Eldred, McKean, Pennsylvania, USA d. 12 Sep 2014, Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 91 years)
  Children	1. Keck, Camille Ann,   b. 21 Dec 1949, Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA d. Mar 1989, Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 39 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Keck, Richard Lawrence,   b. 16 Jul 1951, Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA d. 11 Jan 2004, Elizabethtown, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 52 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Keck, D.   4. Keck, Thomas Richard,   b. 9 Jul 1946, Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA d. 11 Jan 1949, Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 2 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F52927	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 11 May 1925 - Austin, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA Birth - Abt 11 May 1925 - Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA Residence - Between 1930 and 1944 - Austin, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA _MILT - 28 Sep 1944 - Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Accident - Son Tommy, Age: 2y 6m 2d accidental drowning in public (Allegany) river - Robt S. McLaughlin, coroner - 11 Jan 1949 - Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA Residence - Between 1950 and 1983 - Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA _EMPLOY - Potter County Garage - - Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA Death - 30 Mar 2001 - Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA Burial - Aft 30 Mar 2001 - Austin, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		PotterCo Garage crew FB220331KenCole 20220412GHLn- Ken Cole/Coudersport Remember When... March 31 at 9:10 PM · 2022 Found this in an old box of stuff. L to R, kneeling: L.(?) Burt, T.Troy, A. Burdick, A.Bunnell, unknown. Standing: unknown, P. Bradish, Eddy ?, R. Keck, F. Cole (my dad). (to the best of my recollection) Potter County Garage, at the north east corner of E.2nd & N.East…
  		At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
  		Potter Co Garage Texaco 1965 Keck FB240702PaulaPMCou 20240702GHLn- Paula Pesock Mitchell FB Coudersport · 02 July 2024 Potter County Garage 1965 Comments Darren Patterson We're was this building at can't find the streets on the map 10h10 hours ago Reply Paula Pesock Mitchell right across from the Jail on East Second Street. Courthouse would be across other street on left. 10h10 hours…

  
  

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  [S2519] Public Member Trees 2021, Linder Family Tree_2011 - kcreech184 / Camille Ann Keck (35) facts 20210824GHLn- /sse.dll?db=1030&h=242065973663&indiv=try. Record for Camille Ann Keck (35) facts 20210824GHLn-Linder Family Tree_2011 - kcreech184 Camille Ann Keck 1949-1989 BIRTH 21 DEC 1949 • Coudersport, Potter County, Pennsylvania DEATH MAR 1989 • Coudersport, Potter County, Pennsylvania, USA /sse.dll?db=1030&h=242065973663&indiv=try Record for Camille Ann Keck (35) facts 20210824GHLn-Linder Family Tree_2011 - kcreech184 Camille Ann Keck 1949-1989 BIRTH 21 DEC 1949 • Coudersport, Potter County, Pennsylvania DEATH MAR 1989 • Coudersport, Potter County, Pennsylvania, USA /sse.dll?db=1030&h=242065973663&indiv=try Frederick W Keck 1885-1941 BIRTH 2 FEB 1885 • Port Allegany, Pennsylvania DEATH 20 MAR 1941 • Austin, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA m Mabel Myrtle Haskins 1887-1962 BIRTH 22 AUG 1887 • Costello, Potter County, Pennsylvania DEATH 4 SEP 1962 • Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [S1127] Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1964, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;), Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission; Harrisburg, PA; Pennsylvania (State). Death Certificates, 1906-1968; Certificate Number Range: 003751-006300. Record for Thomas Richard Keck (11) facts 20210824GHLn- 20210824GHLn- Thomas Richard Keck in the Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1967 Name: Thomas Richard Keck Gender: Male Race: White Age: 2y 6m 2d Birth: 9 Jul 1946 Coudersport, Pennsylvania res: 311 Eulalia ST, Coudersport Death: 11 Jan 1949 0700h 311 Eulalia ST Coudersport, Potter, Penna (home) cause: Asphyxia 1 3/4 hr due to: strangulation due to: Drowning E929.8 accident, public river signed: Robt S. McLaughlin, Coroner Shinglehouse Father: Richard Keck Mother: Marian Elizabeth Shelley inform: Richard Keck Coudersport burial: 1-14-49 Austin registrar: Dorothy N? Jacobs Certificate: 5805 Source Citation Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission; Harrisburg, PA; Pennsylvania (State). Death Certificates, 1906-1968; Certificate Number Range: 003751-006300 Source Information Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1967 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Pennsylvania (State). Death certificates, 1906-1968. Series 11.90 (1,905 cartons). Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. PA Death Cert 19490111 Thomas Richard Keck.jpg 20210824GHLn- Thomas Richard Keck in the Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1967 Name: Thomas Richard Keck Gender: Male Race: White Age: 2y 6m 2d Birth: 9 Jul 1946 Coudersport, Pennsylvania res: 311 Eulalia ST, Coudersport Death: 11 Jan 1949 0700h 311 Eulalia ST Coudersport, Potter, Penna (home) cause: Asphyxia 1 3/4 hr due… [S1993] Newspapers.com: Potter Journal Leader Enterprise-, Tommy Keck, 2 1/2, Drowns After Leap Into River; 13 Jan 1949, Thu • p1. Thomas Richard Keck drowns (1) fact 20210824GHLn- 20210824GHLn- Tommy Keck, 2 1/2, Drowns After Leap Into River; Physician, Others Fight futilely to Revive Him. CLIPPED FROM The Potter Enterprise Coudersport, Pennsylvania 13 Jan 1949, Thu • Page 1 BYwetzupdoc · 24 Aug 2021 Coudersport Boy, 2 1/2, Drowns After Leap Into River; Physician, Others Fight to Revive Him Son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Keck Fails to Respond After Hour and Half - Jumps Into River, 4-Year-Old Playmate Says - Father Discovers Child in Shallows Downstream - In Water About Half an Hour. Death by drowning came to a 2 1/2-year-old Coudersport boy Tuesday night, tragic aftermath of a plunge into the Allegheny River. The tiny victim, Thomas R. Keck, was found about 250 yards downstream by his father, Richard Keck, about 5:20 p. m., less than 20 minutes after the boy was discovered missing. A physician, police, firemen and a telephone company worker rendered artificial resuscitation for an 1 hour and a half, but the boy failed to respond. He was pronounced dead at 6:50 p. m. Grief-stricken parents sat in a darkened room of the Keck home, on Eulalia St., hopeful to the last that efforts being made in an adjoining room to revive their only child would be successful. The drowning was listed as accidental. The only witness was a four-year-old playmate and neighbor, whose story that "Tommie stood on the fence, jumped into the river" led to the discovery of the child lying in a shallow place in the stream. The mother told police that she missed her son around 5 p. m. As she started a search, Yvonne Lamb, 12, who lives next door, told Mrs. Keck that her son's playmate, Edward Easton, had run to his home, adjoining that of the Lambs, and exclaimed, "Tommie jumped into the river." The Lamb girl was running to inform Mrs. Keck when they met. According to the Easton child's story, they had been playing along the river, which flows at the rear about 250-300 feet away, when, for no assignable reason, the Keck boy climbed onto a fence and leaped into the stream. The water at that point is about five feet deep and almost sluggish. The Easton boy later said that he tried vainly to pull his playmate from the water before running home to tell what had happened. He said "Tommie cried for help when he went in." The father ran to the river.-Neighbors joined in the search, tery, at Austin. made difficult by darkness. White boots the boy was wearing led to his discovery in the river at the rear of the Simmons barn. Lifting the unconscious child from the water, the father raced back to their home and summoned State police. Corp. George A. Auten and Pvt. Michael C. Evelock responded. In the meantime, a call had been put in for firemen to Join the search. Dr. H. C. Mosch arrived shortly after the police and began artificial respiration and administered adrenalin directly into the child's heart muscles. Firemen, who arrived shortly after, assisted. Later, an inhalator owned by the fire department was rushed to the Keck home and put Into operation. David M. Larson, of Bradford, a telephone company employe who said that, as a child, he had been pulled from a stream and revived after three hours, and Dr. Mosch, worked tirelessly over the boy. In a final desperate effort to revive the child, Dr. Mosch administered a second ampule of adrenalin. Meanwhile, scores of neighbors and friends, gathered outside at windows and doors, watched silently and hopefully, as the drama inside unfolded. One who was not present was "Eddie" Easton. He was sleeping soundly, unaware that his little sandy-haired playmate never again would rush into the Easton home and call out, "Where's Eddie." The mother, the former Marion Shelley, of Eldred, sobbed uncontrollably when efforts to revive the boy were abandoned as hopeless. The bereaved woman's husband, his mother and the Rev. Gordon W. Loomis, who was among the first to arrive when word of the tragedy spread, did all they could to comfort her. Thomas was born at Coudersport on July 9, 1946. He was the Keck's third child. Two children born previously died at birth. A funeral service will be held at the residence at 2 p. m. tomorrow (Friday), with Rev. Loomis officiating. The Grabe Funeral Home will conduct the service. Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery, at Austin. Survivors also include his grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Shelley of Eldred. Clipping location on The Potter Enterprise page 1 CLIPPED FROM The Potter Enterprise Coudersport, Pennsylvania 13 Jan 1949, Thu • Page 1 BYwetzupdoc · 24 Aug 2021 At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld. [S1259] FaceBook- Coudersport, Potter County Garage. Ken Cole/Coudersport Remember When... March 31 · 2022 Found this in an old box of stuff. 20220412GHLn-. Fred Cole (1) fact 20220412GHLn- 20220412GHLn- Ken Cole/Coudersport Remember When... March 31 at 9:10 PM · 2022 Found this in an old box of stuff. L to R, kneeling: L.(?) Burt, T.Troy, A. Burdick, A.Bunnell, unknown. Standing: unknown, P. Bradish, Eddy ?, R. Keck, F. Cole (my dad). (to the best of my recollection) Potter County Garage, at the north east corner of E.2nd & N.East streets, across from the jail. There is a grassy lot there now. Cathy Greeley Owens The man on bottom right kneeling is my father in law Lewis Owens. He had the same picture. 15 Comments Jim Linn Where was this? Reply1w Ken Cole Author Jim Linn This was taken in front of the Potter County Garage, at the north east corner of E.2nd & N.East streets, across from the jail. There is a grassy lot there now. Reply1w Jim Linn I was thinking that was it, but also was thinking it may have been the Pontiac garage @ main and Allegany. Thank you for clarifying. We built our 8th or 9th grade homecoming float in the Potter Co Garage. Reply1wEdited Cathy Greeley Owens The man on bottom right kneeling is my father in law Lewis Owens. He had the same picture. Reply1w Cathy Greeley Owens they all worked at potter county garage Reply1w Jami Lynne Nancy Kueter Tara Troy Reply1w Julie Page When men were men Reply1w Jay Young Julie Page We aren't anymore? Reply1w Julie Page Jay Young I didn't mean it that way. Back then most of the men worked like that. Bc there weren't as many opportunities for them. How many young men today would choose to pump gas for someone. You are the man Jay Young. Reply1w Nancy Lanzillo Reply1w Jay Young Julie Page I know was just kidding Reply1w Julie Page Jay Young Reply1w Margaret Blake-Caldwell Top row first on the right is my husband Ralph (Rocky) Caldwell. Third on top is Ed Hirum not sure of the spelling. Ralph gave a copy of this picture to Fezz and it hangs in the diner in the back wall under sign that says "Potter County Garage." Reply1wEdited John C Wetzel So, top right, F. Cole or Rocky Caldwell? Reply6h Ken Cole Author John C Wetzel Fred Cole. Reply13m PotterCo Garage crew FB220331KenCole 20220412GHLn- Ken Cole/Coudersport Remember When... March 31 at 9:10 PM · 2022 Found this in an old box of stuff. L to R, kneeling: L.(?) Burt, T.Troy, A. Burdick, A.Bunnell, unknown. Standing: unknown, P. Bradish, Eddy ?, R. Keck, F. Cole (my dad). (to the best of my recollection) Potter County Garage, at the north east corner of E.2nd & N.East…

  
  

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