Arthur Roy Keeran was born on 10 Nov 1894, in Leipsic, Ohio. His parents were John R. & Mary S. Keeran. Prior to enlistment Arthur R. Keeran was employed as a clerk and as a laborer.
Arthur R. Keeran would enlist 18 November 1917. He would receive his training at Camp Sherman, Ohio with Company 3, Training Battalion, 158 Depot Brigade. He would then be assigned to Company B, 308th Ammunition Train, 83rd Infantry Division, at Camp Sherman until 20 December 1917; Keeran would then depart Hoboken, New Jersey, on 4 January 1918, aboard the USS Mercury. While in Europe he wrote home to D. C. Nelson. In the letter he talks of seeing some soldiers from Marion. (article below). He would serve in Europe with the Motor Transport Corps. 302 until his death. Pvt. Arthur R. Keeran died of tuberculosis on 5 March 1919. His remains would arrive at the Brooklyn Naval Base, on 19 June 1921, aboard the Mars.
Pvt. Keeran is buried in the Marion Cemetery. Pvt. Arthur R. Keeran is remembered on the Honor Roll, at the Veterans Memorial Park, in Marion, Ohio; and World War One Honor Roll, located on the second floor of the Marion County Courthouse.

ARTHUR KEERAN’S NEWSY
POSTCARD FROM FRANCE
Tell About Marion Boys and
What They’re Doing.
D. C. Nelson has received from Arthur R. Keeran, of the 302d motor car company, postcards on the back of one of which Keeran states that he is located in Tours and is now engaged in driving a motor car for Colonel Bush.
Keeran says: “I had the good fortune of seeing some of the Marion boys. Yancey Shields is now a second lieutenant in the infantry. I saw John Douce, who is driving a car in the aviation corps. Corporal Millard Baldwin is in charge of an American gas station. Robert Coe and Owen Kirts are in the aviation not far from here and Harley Lewis is an officer in the artillery about fifty miles from this place.
“As far as I can learn all the Marion boys are O K and the way things are beginning to look we might get home some of these days.”

Marion Daily Star dated 11-02-1918