Mrs. Keitelbein

Chapter 5

Mrs. Keitelbein — aliases: Kay Keitelbein

A timid, middle-aged neighbor conducting a door-to-door campaign for Civil Defense. She visits the Black household where Junie is unavailable, then proceeds to the Gumm/Nielson house to recruit Ragle Gumm for a disaster instruction class, which he accepts.

Chapter 6

Mrs. Keitelbein

Mrs. Keitelbein recruits Ragle for her Civil Defense class, fails to locate her ledger of sign-ups, and asks him to help her son move a heavy desk from the basement to an auditorium.

Chapter 13

Mrs. Keitelbein / Keitelbein

Mrs. Keitelbein appears as a clerk in the drugstore, locks the door, and explains to Ragle that the town is a moving set in Wyoming, that he was made to forget his mission, and provides him with a reorientation kit containing biographical and historical materials about the war with the lunatics.