Donald Clyde Keefer, age 86, a longtime Aberdeen resident, died on Friday, April 5, 2013, at Grays Harbor Community Hospital in Aberdeen. Don was born on August 21, 1926, in Evansville, Arkansas to Clyde Laroy and Ada Ruth (Matterson) Keefer.
Donald came to Aberdeen driving a Ford Model A in 1944 and went to work in the expanding wood industry, starting at Schafer Brothers Sawmill in South Aberdeen. Hired originally as a planer feeder, he later became a millwright. He held this position for his entire career.