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John E. McKeever
Family in Washington
John Edwin McKeever, 90, died Oct. 28 at the National Lutheran Home in Rockville of complications related to bladder cancer.
He lived for a number of years in the Tiger Valley area of Washington, Va., with his daughter and son-inlaw, Joan and Bob Herrema.
Mr. McKeever was a real estate developer and broker who helped develop Silver Spring.
He was bom in Sapulpa, Okla., and raised in the District. He was a member of the first graduating class of Blessed Sacrament School in 1928. After graduating from St. John’s High School in 1932 and briefly attending the National Law School (forerunner to the George Washington LTniversity School of Law), he worked for Gulf Oil and later owned and operated the Sunoco station at River Road and Wisconsin Avenue NW.
At the start of World War II, having served in the Maryland National Guard, he sought to enlist in the military as a pilot. He had trained at Hyde Field, now the site of the Pentagon, and Congressional Airport in Montgomery County, now Congressional Shopping Center. He was an early member of the Montgomery County Human Relations
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