- Davenport Times - July 4, 2002
Keith B. Ehlenfeldt
Davenport - Service for Keith V. Ehlenfeldt, 88, was Friday, June 28, at the Davenport-Edwall, United Methodist Church in Davenport with Pastor Bruce Smith officiating. Interment followed in the Mondovi Cemetery.
Mr. Ehlenfeldt died June 25 in Davenport.
Born April 30, 1914, in Faulkton, S.D., to Lou and Fredericka Ehlenfeldt, he started working as a mechanic there at age 14 and graduated from Faulkton High School in 1932. He moved to Davenport in 1936, where he met and married Helen Palmer on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939. He worked at the Ford garage.
He and the family moved in 1941 to Coulee Dam, where he ran the service station, then to Portland, Ore., where he was a machinist at the Oregon Shipyards during World War II. He also worked evenings as a police officer. In 1947, he moved to Newburg, Ore., where he worked at the Ford garage, before returning to Davenport to become foreman at the Ford garage until 1968, when he became foreman at the county shop. He also farmed in the Bald Ridge area from 1957 until he retired from both jobs in 1978.
During retirement, he and his wife drove their 1936 Ford Roadster in numerous area parades, and enjoyed travels to Florida, California, Colorado, South Dakota and Hawaii, where the entire family vacationed in 1982.
He belonged to the Davenport-Edwall United Methodist church and the Lincoln county Historical Society.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a brother, Carroll; a son-in-law, Jean Sanguinet; and two grand-children.
He leaves his wife of 63 years, at the home; two sons, both of Spokane; a daughter, of Davenport; six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren; a brother, of Idaho; and several extended family members.
Memorials may be made to the Davenport-Edwall United Methodist Church or the Union Gospel Mission in Spokane, Strate Funeral Home in Davenport handled arrangements.
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1914 - 2002 (88 years)
