The bodies of the two men, found near Blackwater creek were identified as Edward Callaway, 40 and Forrest McKeown, 50. Both were men of Holden, Missouri. The victims were wouldbe rescuers who dissapeared after helping persons trapped in a car, Monday night near Holden, Missouri.

Michael Henley, 11, of Holden, Missouri was swept away in the same flooding Blackwater creek, in the same incident that claimed the lives of Edward Callaway and Forrest McKeown. Edward Callaway and Forrest McKeown, both of Holden, Missouri were in boats which capsized in the attempt to rescue the Henley boy.

At Holden, about 100 persons search the receding waters of Blackwater creek yesterday without finding any trace of two men presumably drowned while attempting to save a family. The men, Edward Calloway, about 50, a farmer and Forrest McKeown, 51, who operated a towing service, disappeared into the swollen creek waters at separate places near Holden in rescue efforts.

Callaway helped rescue Mrs. James T Henley and her four children, who were stranded on a bridge in a car over the creek about three and a half miles north of Holden, Missouri. When the rescue boat capsized, Callaway supported four persons against a tree for more than an hour until they were rescued, but he was swept away by the swift current before he himself could be saved. Michael Henley, 11, also was swept away. His body was recovered later.

McKeown apparently drowned when his boat, in which he was searching for Callaway and the Henley boy, overturned when it struck a tree.

Articles from the Kansas City Star on July 21, 1965.

His mother, Caroline "Lena" Vossen was married to Reed DeForest McKeown.

Her parent's were, Carl Joseph "Charles" Vossen and Agnes D Dresen.

Reed and Lena had a son Forrest McKeown who married Lorena Louisa Brandt 4 Aug 1939 Phelps CO., MO, this from "Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002"

On this record it gives his father as R. D. McKeown.