Keiser Family - Shelley Emmert Keiser - Portrait

This is a picture of Shelley Emmert Keiser when he was about 3 years old. That would be about From this picture, a painting was done of him from just below the shoulders to above his head. The painting itself is about  2feet by 3 feet and hanging down in our "gallery" in the basement - it's a nice basement so there isn't much clutter around him and the temperature is a fairly even temp of 67 degrees or so.

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Keiser Family - Shelley Emmert Keiser - page 7 - Obituary

 I do not know the paper from which this obituary came from, nor when I obtained it. It could have been The Fresno Bee or from Helen's documents. This obituary reads:

Shelley E. Keiser

MIRAMONTE - Funeral services will be held Monday at 10 a.m. in the Cairns Chapel in Reedley for Shelley E. Keiser, 72, a retired livestock rancher, who died Thursday in a Fresno hospital of a long illness. The Rev. Leo K. Brown will officiate and burial will be in the Sanger Cemetery.

     Keiser, a native of Stillwater, Okla., had lived in California since 1909, the past 31 years in the Miramonte district. He was a veteran of World War I, a member of the Dunlap-Miramonte Veterans of Foreign Wars Post and of the Central Sierra Chamber of Commerce.

     Surviving is his widow, Helen.

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Keiser Family - Shelley Emmert Keiser - page 5 - War Service Certificate

 

Miramonte                               86836                           BOOK 3699 PAGE 513

RECORDED AT REQUEST OF

N.Nav.213                                                                                                 S.E. KEISER

FRESNO COUNTY CALIFORNIA

I. E. FARLEY, COUNTY RECORDER

W.H.Watson

BY DEPUTY RECORDER

AT 38 MIN. PAST 11aM

                    UNITED STATES NAVAL RESERVE FORCE        DEC 22 1955

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DISCHARGE

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This is to certify That Shelley Emmert Keiser a Cox, Provisional 101-78-43, this date has been discharged from the U.S.S. eleventh Naval District and the U.S. Naval Reserve Force, Class 4, by reason of 

Expiration of enrollment

(Enter expiration of enrollment; special order of Navy Department (under age); physical disability; order Bureau of Navigation (date); or other reason, giving same in detail)

Is.....recommended for reenrollment. Rating best qualified to fill, Cox. Prov.

(Provisional or confirmed rating)

Dated this 15th day of July, 1921, at San Diego, Calif.

J.G.CHURCH, Captain, {U.S.N.

XXXXXXXX

Character of discharge   HONORABLE

(Enter in red ink, "honorable," "good," "inaptitude,"" "undesireable")

by direction

4--4549

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Keiser Family - Shelley Emmert Keiser - page 5 - War Service Certificate

 

20775                                                #1017843                                     No. 387585

War Service Certificate

United States Navy

RECORDING REQUESTED BY

This certifies that Shelley Emmert Keiser, cox U.S.N. R.F.,

performed honorable active service in the United States Navy

from August 27th, 1917, to December 18th, 1918

on board the following ships and stations N.R.T.C. San Pedro, Cal.,

USNAR School, Chicago, Ill., USNARF Cleveland, N.A.R. New York - - - - - -

[vertical]BOOK 5422 PAGE 182

Thos. S. Harloe, Lieut USN-R

By Direction 

Commanding Officer

RECORDED IN OFFICIAL RECORDS OF 

FRESNO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA

AT 58 MIN. PAST 11 A.M.

MAR 28 1967

J.L. BROWN, County Record FEE $ No Fee.

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Keiser Family - Shelley Emmert Keiser - page 4 - Enrollment Record

This is Shelley Emmert Keiser's Enrollment Record for World War 1. It reads:                        513 2

ENROLLMENT RECORD

SCALE OF MARKS: 0, Bad; 1, Indifferent; 1.5, Fair; 2.5, Passing; 3.0, Good; 3.5, Very Good; 4.0 Excellent.

Name, Shelley Emmert Keiser; Rate, 604;

Enrolled, July 16 1917, at San Pedro Cal, for 4 years;

Previous naval service, - years; Previous Naval Reserve Service, - years; Served apprenticeship, -; Gun Captain certificate, - ; Certificate graduation P.O. School, - ; Seaman Gunner, - ' Trade, Oil refiner; Citizenship, US; Ratings held during enrollment, Sea 2c - Cox Proficiency in rating, 3.5; Sobriety, 4 ; Obedience, 4 ; Average standing for term of enrollment, 3.8; Special qualifications, - .

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DESCRIPTIVE LIST.

(To be made after careful examination at date of discharge.)

Where born, Stillwater Okla; Date, Aug 11, 1894; Age, 22 years, 11 months; Height, 5 feet, 4 1/2 inches; Weight, 129 lbs.; Eyes, Blue 11; Hair, Lt. Brown; Complexion, Ruddy

Personal characteristics, marks, etc., p.s. l forehead; s l[eft] index finger; s 1/4" l[eft] thumb; brok l[eft] arm: NSLA

Percentage of time on sick list during enrollment, 8/1460

Is ------ physically qualified for reenrollment.

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Keiser Family - Shelley Emmert Keiser - page 3 - Marriage license

I believe that I found these documents on FamilySearch.org at an unknow date and time. Possibly between 2015 - 2018.

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Keiser Family - Shelley Emmert Keiser - page 1- Birth Certificate

I believe that I found this birth Certificate on FamilySearch.org., between 2015 and 2019.

This reads: Subscribed and Sworn to before me a notary Public in and for Paypne County State of Oklahoma by E E Vincent Registrar this 13th day of October 1928
                                                   J.H. Donald[?] 
                                                     Notary Public
 My Commission ends Jan 21nd 1931                                                                               Stillwater Oklahoma

 
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