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KEIR - EGGESTEIN
60th wedding anniversary celebrated by Keirs
Friday, November 28, 2003
Sixty years ago, on Oct. 22, 1943, Grace A. Eggestein of Jackson, Minn., and Donald L. Keir of Nemahew, Iowa exchanged vows in Estherville, Iowa.
Don served four years in the Air Force as a gunnery instructor.
After his discharge, he worked at Pan American Airways in San Francisco.
From there they moved to Minnesota and then back to Lodi where he worked for Claude C. Woods as an operating engineer for 22 years until his retirement to Pioneer in 1978.
Don and his wife, Grace, who is a homemaker, still live in Pioneer.
Their family consists of three children, Donna Keir of Modesto, Robert Keir of Lodi and Donald R. Keir of Modesto; four grandchildren, Jon Hawkins, Steve Keir who is presently in the Air Force, Melanie Keir and Stephanie Cordova and the three great-grandchildren; Tyler Hawkins, Cynthia Hawkins and Hunter Cordova.
On the Keir's anniversary date, their son Donald Keir and his wife Debbie, arranged a special surprise trip to San Francisco for the day.
The senior Keirs lived there 56 years ago and this trip revived old memories for them.
The other members of the family joined the couple later in the day to help them celebrate.
