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/5947 Message Board Post: KEITH CHASE REARWIN Sept. 7, 1934 Funeral services were held Sunday at 2:30 in the Fillmore M. E. Church, preceded by a prayer at the home, for Keith Chase REARWIN, 21, of this place, who passed away suddenly in the Fillmore Hospital Thursday evening, Rev. C. H. NASH of Shinglehouse, Pa., assisted by Rev. Harold WASS of Fillmore were the officiating clergymen. The untimely death of Keith REARWIN cast a gloom over this community in which he was born May 11, 1913, and where he had spent the major portion of his life. He was a popular, respected young man, actively affiliated with various organizations of this place, belonging to Rev. NASH's Sunday school class of young men, had been a member of Brooks Hose Co. for several years, attended Fillmore High School and spent one year at Alfred University. Two years ago he suffered from a serious illness resulting from blood poisoning and was a patient in the Fillmore Hospital for several weeks at which time his life was almost despaired of. He recovered from this, however, and engaged in work on his father's farm for a time. July 18th of this year while engaged in work driving a tractor on the Fillmore railroad underpass project, he sustained an injury to his head, being struck by a lever on a scraper the machine was hauling. The injury, considered insignificant at the time, prevented his working however, and continued to give him trouble. The Wednesday before his death he was removed to the local hospital for treatment and Thursday evening lapsed into a coma from which he failed to rally, his death occurring late that night. Medical science pronounced his death due to an abscess on the brain resulting from the injury. Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. REARWIN, Keith is survived by his wife, formerly Miss Lillian WALKER of Fillmore, to whom he was married Feb. 8, 1934, a sister, Phyllis of Fillmore and a brother Earle, of Buffalo. The funeral was largely attended, the uniformed firemen attending in a body. Burial was made in Pine Grove Cemetery. [Northern Allegany Observer obituary, transcribed by Louise Y. Mills, 2003, from Cora Lahr's scrapbooks, Fillmore, NY]