The Putnam County School District family mourns the loss of Jan Dunn Keller, who taught locally for 15 years and died Aug. 23.

Jan was a third-grade teacher at Kelley Smith Elementary School and known to all of us in the district as a caring, dedicated and skilled teacher. Jan began her teaching career at Interlachen Elementary School and taught at Kelley Smith for the last four years.

A loving and caring daughter and mother to two children, Jan was known to colleagues as a teacher who took the issues of her students to heart and treated children in her care as her own. Jan loved teaching, the beach and the color green. On Friday, Aug. 27, faculty and students at Kelley Smith wore flip-flops and dressed in green in memory of Jan. 

She is survived by her mother, Norma “Jo” Dunn; daughter, Kasey Jo Keller; son, Eric David Keller; former husband, Rick Keller; brothers, Van Dunn & wife, Shelley, Mark Dunn & wife, Tammy and Michael S. Dunn; aunts, Mary Dibler and Joyce Carpenter; nephews, Ryan Dunn, Noah Dunn, and Cooper Dunn; cousins, Cindy Peairs, Lisa Wheeler, Craig Dibler, Sonya Treat, and Capt. Sandy Carpenter.

Memorial services will be held 11:00 A.M. Saturday Aug. 28 at the Trinity United Methodist Church with Rev. Gene Maddox officiating.  Friends may call Saturday from 10:00 – 11:00 A.M. at the Trinity United Methodist Church. In celebration of her life a memorial video will be shown.  Private family burial will be at a later date in Palatka Memorial Gardens.  Memorial donations can be made to: Scholarship Fund of Trinity United Methodist Church, 1400 Husson Avenue, Palatka, Florida, 32177 or to: The Lee Conlee House, P. O. Box 2558, Palatka, Florida, 32178-2558. 

We have designed this memorial page for those who knew Jan to express their thoughts and feelings about her.