GARY MAURICE O'KEEFE

Company B 1/22 Infantry

4th Infantry Division

12/05/1968

Age: 20
Race: Caucasian
Sex: Male
Date of Birth Sep 11, 1948
From: COLUMBUS, OH
Religion: ROMAN CATHOLIC
Marital Status: Single

CPL - E4 - Army - Selective Service
4th Infantry Division
Grade at loss: E3
Rank: Corporal
Note: Posthumous Promotion as indicated
MOS: 11B20: Infantryman
Length of service 0 years
His tour began on Oct 3, 1968
Casualty was on Dec 5, 1968
In , SOUTH VIETNAM
Non-Hostile, died of illness/injury, GROUND CASUALTY
MALARIA
Body was recovered

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Gary O'Keefe contracted malaria on November 27, 1968 and died eight days later from complications
resulting from the disease, at the 71st Evacuation Hospital at Pleiku.

CPL Gary M. O'Keefe's decorations

Gary M. O'Keefe was a champion wrestler.
This photo from the Grandview Heights High School yearbook of 1966
shows Gary being presented with a trophy from a wrestling competition.

Burial:
Saint Joseph Cemetery
Lockbourne
Franklin County
Ohio, USA
Plot: St. Pius Sec

Gary M. O'Keefe's grave marker

Photo by Brent Nimmo from the Find A Grave website

Gary M. O'Keefe's grave

Photo by Brent Nimmo from the Find A Grave website

For a tribute to Gary M. O'Keefe click on the following link:

Together We Served

Top photo of Gary M. O'Keefe in his wrestling uniform from the Grandview Heights High School,
Columbus, Ohio yearbook of 1966.

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