Extracted from The Delta Democrat-Times (Greenville, MS)
Sunday, August 26, 1962

John Q. Keith

DREW -- Services for John Quittie Keith, 63, prominent banker, were held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Drew Methodist Church with the Rev. C. B. Burt officiating assisted by the Rev. Johnny Lee Taylor. Burial will be today at 2 p.m. in the Brookhaven, Miss., Cemetery with Thweatt Funeral Home of Cleveland in charge.

Mr. Keith died Friday at 2:20 a.m. in the Baptist Hospital in Memphis after being admitted as a patient Thursday.

Born in Batesville, Miss., he was schooled in Sardis, and was graduated from Bowling Green Business University at Bowling Green, Ky., in 1919. From there he came to Drew where he was employed by J. M. Yerger, planter, for several months.

In 1920 he became associated with the Merchants and Planters Bank here, a branch of the Bank of Clarksdale, as bookkeeper, working up to the position of executive vice-president which he held until the time of his death.

A member of the Drew Methodist Church, he was a member of the official board and a past chairman of the board, and was also serving at [sic as] church treasurer and a member of the Board of Trustees at the time of his death. A past president of the Drew Rotary Club, he was a past director of the Drew Chamber of Commerce.

He leaves his wife, Mrs. Cordelia Har[r]ington Keith of Drew; and a brother, Miller Ellis Keith of Holly Springs.