Carson Arnold Keith

Born 1926 and reared in the Argo/Trussville communities of Jefferson Co north of Birmingham, he graduated from Hewitt-Trussville High School in 1945 before being called into the Army near the end of WWII. He served in the First Infantry Division in the occupation of Germany/Austria in 1946-47 and was discharged. He accepted the Army’s call for further service in 1948 and was given an assignment at Hq US Constabulary/Hq Seventh Army in Stuttgart, Germany.

Commissioned as an Officer of Infantry he served over the years in command & staff positions at the Company, Battalion, Brigade and Division levels. After his Vietnam service he was posted to a Personnel Management position as Operations & Control Officer of the US Army Personnel Center where he Managed the processing of some 30, 000 personnel monthly consisting of new inductees into the Army for basic training, shipment of replacements to Oversea assignments, and finally Separation/Discharging from service those personnel who had completed their service obligations. This assignment was followed by his second tour of duty in Korea where he was posted as the Director of Intelligence for the Army’s Second Infantry Division along the DMZ and later as a Deputy Brigade Commander in that Division. His final Army assignment was as Army Representative on the Faculty of the USAF Air-Ground Operations School at Eglin AFB, FL where he retired in December of 1970 in the grade of LtCol. He then moved with his family to Mobile and took a teaching position as a Sr Army Instructor for JROTC in the Mobile Co School System; first at then Alba HS (1971 – 76) and later Shaw HS (1976 – 80). He founded Keith Map Service in Mobile, a widely known and respected Map Publishing & Distribution firm. He was a graduate of the University of Nebraska, Omaha and held the Master of Education degree from the University of S. Alabama.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Hildegard Bayer Keith of Stuttgart, Germany, whom he married on January 5, 1952. Preceded in death by his sons, Stephen Keith and Phillip Keith. He is survived by his son Barry Keith and two grandchildren, Adrienne Keith and Andrew Keith; and three great-grandchildren, Tristan Keith, Madison Keith, and Adelyn Keith; and sister, Betty Sue Lovelady of Trussville, AL.

Entombment in the Chapel of the Pines, Pine Crest Cemetery, Mobile, AL.