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Obituary- Navarre, Keith 2

Keith Navarre
EL PASO, Texas — Keith J. Navarre, 76, El Paso, died Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2000, at an El Paso hospital.
Mr. Navarre retired from the Army in 1974 at the rank of chief warrant officer four. He was a 31 -year veteran of the service. He served in the European theater during World War II. He also served in the Korean War, in the Occupation of Japan and in Korea again during the Vietnam era. He later served 12 years in the Drug Enforcement Administration before he retired in 1986.
Mr. Navarre was decorated with the Bronze Star for Valor with oak leaf cluster, the Purple Heart with oak leaf cluster, Meritorious Ser¬vice Medal, Commendation Medal with four oak leaf clusters, Good Conduct Medal, Com¬bat Infantry Badge with Star, Navy Presidential Unit Citation, American Presidential Unit Cita¬tion (Army), Korean Presidential Unit Citation and the First French Army Commendation Medal.
He was born Aug. 31, 1923, in Kansas City, Mo. He graduated from St. Joseph Military Academy in Hays, and later from the Univer¬sity of Texas at El Paso. He was a citizen of the Potawatomi Indian Band of Oklahoma.
Mr. Navarre was a member of the Disabled American Veterans Association, the Retired Officers Association, 75th Infantry Division Association, French Army “Rhine et Danube” Association, Kateri Tekakwitha Indian Confer¬ence and the Northern Indiana Historical Association.
Survivors include his wife, Shio Navarre, El Paso; a daughter, Nina M. Ahumada, El Paso; two stepsons, James Y. Navarre, El Paso, and Yoshinori Shinoda, Atami, Japan; and four grandchildren.
Services will be at 9 a.m. Wednesday at Chapel No. 2 at Fort Bliss. Burial with full mili¬tary honors will be in Fort Bliss National Cem¬etery. A rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Tues¬day at Kaster, Wlaxon, Futrell Funeral Home in El Paso.
Contributions may be made to Potawatomi Memorial Scholarship Fund, in honor of Keith J. Navarre, 1601 Gordon Cooper Drive, Shaw¬nee, Okla. 74801.

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