This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/6242 Message Board Post: JOHN H. KEYES FILLMORE, Feb. 26, 1964 -- Col. John H. KEYES (ret.), 71, of Wiscoy, who was Commanding Officer of the Armed Forces Mobile Induction Team in the Old Customs Building, Buffalo, New York in WWII, died Monday in the Batavia Veteran's Hospital after a brief illness. A major at the time of his wartime service in Buffalo, he directed mass inductions from October 14, 1943, after being transferred from a similar post in Albany. Col. KEYES was a veteran of WWI. He served in France with the famous First Division as a sergeant and won the Fourragere, a French decoration for conspicuous gallantry in action. Col. KEYEs retired in 1957 after 48 years of active duty. He then moved from Buffalo to Wiscoy in Allegany County. He was a member of Oriona Grove Lodge 229, F. and A. M. , of Fillmore. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Amelia SCHLICHT KEYES; a daughter, Mrs. Chester LOJEK, Kenmore; a stepson, John H. TESMER, of Wiscoy; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. The body will be in the Kopler Funeral Home, Fillmore, until funeral services at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Wiscoy Methodist Church. The Rev. J. Whitney SHEA will conduct the funeral. [Transcribed by Louise Y. Mills, 2003, from obituary collection of Lenora Mills, Wiscoy, NY]