{"id":280460,"date":"2026-09-06T19:32:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T19:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280460\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T19:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T19:32:23","slug":"spring-township-man-marks-his-100th-birthday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280460\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Township man marks his 100th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Name:\u00a0Lee Keinard<\/p>\n<p>Address: Spring Township, Berks County<\/p>\n<p>Age:\u00a0100<\/p>\n<p>Birthday: Aug. 23, 1926<\/p>\n<p>Where born: Baumstown, Berks County<\/p>\n<p>Name of spouse:\u00a0Mary Jane (deceased); married 72 years<\/p>\n<p>Parents:\u00a0Frederick and Mary Belle Keinard<\/p>\n<p>Siblings: three sisters and two brothers<\/p>\n<p>Places of residence during lifetime: Baumstown, Greenfields and Spring Township<\/p>\n<p>Names of children:\u00a0Kathy Keinard<\/p>\n<p>Grandchildren:\u00a0None<\/p>\n<p>Great-grandchildren:\u00a0None<\/p>\n<p>Education: Baumstown School, 1st-6th grade; Exeter Junior High, 7th-10th grade; Birdsboro High School 11th-12th grade<\/p>\n<p>Employment history: Entered the U.S. Army in December 1944 and was staffed at the U.S. European headquarters in France and Germany. Discharged in 1946. Worked in various roles for CNA Insurance, retiring after 43 years of service.<\/p>\n<p>Hobbies: Playing the piano and organ<\/p>\n<p>Happiest days of your life: My wedding day. Being discharged from the Army. My daughter\u2019s birth.<\/p>\n<p>Greatest achievements: Raising my daughter. Playing the organ in church. Becoming a Mason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Name:\u00a0Lee Keinard Address: Spring Township, Berks County Age:\u00a0100 Birthday: Aug. 23, 1926 Where born: Baumstown, Berks County Name&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129,1291],"class_list":["post-280460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-senior-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}