His first parish was in Lot 7, and from 
     
     there he was transferred closer to home in 
     
     Kelly’s Cross. From there, he joined the 
     
     army as a chaplin at the outbreak of the 
     
     Second World War. Stationed at Debert, 
     
     Nova Scotia, one of his duties was to 
     
     accompany soldiers overseas to their bases 
     
     in England, and to accompany wounded 
     
     soldiers home. These were dangerous 
     
     expeditions with the threat of German 
     
     submarines which sank many battleships 
     
     and supply and merchant vessels in the 
     
     cold waters of the North Atlantic. Father 
     
     Wilfred made three such dangerous 
     
     voyages. After the war, he served in various 
     
    
   
   
    
     parishes across the Island. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Kathleen’s older brother Rev. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Wilfiwd Keefe (1908 - 1974). 
     
     He is buried in the St. Malachy’s 
     
    
   
   
    
     Roman Catholic cemetery 
     
     in Kinkora 
     
    
   
   
    
     Edith, the fifth child, was born in 1910 
     
     and miraculously escaped the diptheria 
     
     epidemic that claimed the lives of her 
     
     three sisters. After graduating from the 
     
     Kinkora school, she completed high 
     
     school and teacher training at Prince of 
     
     Wales College in Charlottetown, and 
     
     received her teacher’s license in 1930. 
     
     After teaching for a year in Searletown, 
     
     she entered the Congregation of the 
     
     Sisters of St. Martha in 1931 where she 
     
     was given the religious name, Sister 
     
     Mary Angela. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Kathleen’s older sister Edith, known as Sister Mary Angela (1910 — 2003). She was a 
     
     former Mother Superior with the Saint Martha’s congregation and is buried in the 
     
     congregation’s cemetery on the Mount Edward Road in Charlottetown 
     
    
   
   
    
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