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Visitation:
10:00 until 11:00 am, Saturday, July 27 at
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Mount
Pulaski
Service:
11 a.m. Saturday, July 27 at the funeral home
Funeral home:
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader, Mount Pulaski
Obituary
Keith Harris Day, 91, formerly of
Scaly Mountain, NC, and Springfield, Illinois went
to his heavenly home on June 29, 2019, after a brief
illness. Born on December 17, 1927, in Springfield,
he served in the US Navy as a weather forecaster in
the North Pacific, during the end of WWII. After
leaving the Navy, he worked for Sangamo Electric
Company in Springfield, and Clayton, Georgia until
his retirement.
He was a lifelong lover of the outdoors and an
active member of the Appalachian Trail Society and
the Bartram Trail Society. Keith Day Knob in Macon
County, NC was named to honor his many hours of
service in developing and maintaining trails for the
Bartram Trail Society. Mr. Day was a devoted Boy
Scout Master in Springfield, (Troop 3) and in Rabun
County, GA. He was also a loving husband, father,
grandfather, great-grandfather and a friend to
everyone he met.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Evelyn Marie
Hinds Day, daughter, Janet Marie Day Jackson, mother
Margaret May Bryson Day, father Lloyd C Day, sisters
Mildred Day Wiebking and Thelma Jean Day McKnight,
and brother Robert B. Day.
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He is survived by his daughter, Jane
Lynne Thornburg (Mark) of Dallas, NC, son, Lloyd
Keith Day (Tonjia) of Lincoln, granddaughters
Phyllis Kastle (Alan) of Brookfield, Jessica and
Margaret Thornburg of Dallas, NC, grandson Joshua
Day of Lincoln, great-grandson Eliot Kastle of
Brookfield, and brother Edward Day of Denver, CO.
There will be a private ceremony for the family in
Gastonia NC. The family will receive friends from
10:00 until 11:00 am, Saturday, July 27 at
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Mount
Pulaski. A memorial service will follow at the
funeral home. Inurnment will be at Stout Cemetery in
Chatham.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks for memorial
gifts to be given to The Bartram Trail Society or
Appalachian Trail Society.
The family would like to thank the loving staff of
Carolina Care Center in Cherryville, NC for treating
him with exemplary care in his final years. He was
treated by all as if he were their own family
member.
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