RED BOILING SPRINGS – Funeral Services for Durell Keith, 81 of Shelbyville, TN and formerly of the Willette Community in Macon County, TN were conducted Tuesday afternoon, December 28, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. from the Chapel of Anderson & Son Funeral Home in Red Boiling Springs with E. C. Meadows officiating.  Interment followed in the Keith-Strode Cemetery with military honors.  His family and friends served as pallbearers.

Durell Keith passed away Friday evening, December 24, 2010 at the Heritage Medical Center in Shelbyville, TN.

Durell was born Saturday, May 11, 1929 in Jackson County, TN, the son of the late Galie and Alta Bilbrey Keith.  On October 25, 1957, he married the former Bonnie Lee Brasel, who survives.  In addition to his parents, he was also preceded in death by his daughters, Judy Hix and Beverly Cain, sisters, Louise Winters, Edith Celsor and Helen Brown and his brothers, Burr, Ray and Dumas Keith.  Durell was a Logger and Sawmill Worker.  He was an army veteran of Korea where he proudly served his country.

Survivors besides his wife Bonnie of 53 years include: Son & Daughter-in-law, Timothy & Geraldine Keith, Hermitage Springs Community, Grandson & his wife, Tim & Zoila Hix, Shelbyville, Great-Grandson, Fernado Dubon, Shelbyville, sisters, Marie Klinger, Akron, OH, Dovie Temberton, Franklin, IN, Robbie Turner, Hendersonville, Dean Blankenship and husband, R.B. of Lafayette.

Arrangements by the Anderson & Son Funeral Home.