Keith
Woodford
Sorenson
Born in Kansas, United States
Ancestors 
Brother of
Paul Dale Sorenson, Juanita (Sorenson) Renfro, Jerome Sorenson, Ruth (Sorenson) Akers, [private sister (1930s - unknown)], Marvin Raymond Sorenson and Norman Edgar Sorenson
Husband of
Margaret (Reavis) Sorenson
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 82
in Yates Center, Woodson, Kansas, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 13 Jun 2015
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Biography
Keith was born in 1923. He is the son of William Sorenson and Jessie Willhite. He passed away in 2005.
US Army[1]
- Enlistment Date: 12 Feb 1943
- Release Date: 9 Apr 1946
Obituary[2]
Keith W. Sorenson, 82, Yates Center, died Thursday, June 9, 2005, at his home.
He was born April 2, 1923, in Yates Center, the son of William N. and Jessie Blanche Wilhite Sorenson. He grew up in Yates Center and attended schools there.
He served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II as a glider mechanic and co-pilot in central Europe and the Rineland.
He worked as an auto mechanic and was a member of American Legion Post #13 and Disabled Veterans of America.
He enjoyed fishing and the outdoors.
He married Margaret Reavis. They later divorced.
Survivors include two sons, Larry Sorenson, Yates Center, and Bryan Sorenson, Lawrence; two brothers, Norman Sorenson, Yates Center, and Marvin Sorenson, Chanute; a sister, Sadie Burton, Iola; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Cremation will take place. Memorial services will be 11 a.m. Friday, June 17, at Yates Center Cemetery with military honors.
Memorials to American Legion Post #13 may be left with Campbell Funeral Home, Yates Center.
Sources
- ↑ Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- ↑ Chanute Tribune, The (KS) - Tuesday, June 14, 2005
- "United States Census, 1930," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X77P-K33 : accessed 13 June 2015), Keith Sorenson in household of Wm N Sorenson, Yates Center, Woodson, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 0013, sheet 1A, family 14, line 50, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 726; FHL microfilm 2,340,461.
- "United States Census, 1940," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VR2K-F2Z : accessed 13 June 2015), Keith Sorenson in household of Wm N Sorenson, Yates Center, Yates Center City, Woodson, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 104-13, sheet 10B, family 241, NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), roll 1266.
- Find A Grave: Memorial #11173054
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Keith by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Keith:
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