Keith Baker Obituary

HI HONEY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, know it was beautiful with all the angels and Jesus there with you. Well, a new year has come and you have been gone 5 years, which to me seems like yesterday. I sure hope you are in the Cloud of Witnesses because Justin and Leigh sure could use some extra help. I pray for them and Jesus has watched over them and kept them safe but they are having some great difficulties in their lives. I know the closer they get to God the better their lives will be so I keep the faith but it gets hard sometimes. A home isn't a home without you, doesn't matter where I am at. I will keep pressing on for Gods purpose for me but I must start helping myself more also as I know God can't do for me if I keep doing my will and not His, I love you Keith and miss you forever, my brother John is sick now from the Hep C I hate that disease. Pray for him Keith, I have to go now, belated Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and all the Angels in Heaven and our Christ Jesus. For now...Jean

Hi Honey,
I am a few day late but I put a Memorial Birthday for you on FB so more people would see it. You would have been 64 and I just turned 66, sure thought we had many more years to enjoy our dreams together. I know I will be alone he rest of my life but you are with me every single day in my thoughts no matter what I have planned or what I am doing. You were the love of my life and my soulmate so I am content on being alone in my life. I sure wish you were here to be with Justin and Leigh, they love you so much and wanted you to see their lives prosper and be proud of them but we know how proud and how much you love them. I miss our life, waiting for you to come home from work, you would always walk in and say "coffee done" like clock work, then we would talk about our day and have our coffee and off to the pole barn you would go. God I know how happy you are with our Lord but I wish we still had our life together. I love you forever Keith and hope you will watch over your children always..you know someday you may be a grandfather and I will make sure they will know you and so will the kids. Must go and well don't have any plans really. I am still at Leighs but am driving home in a few days, I am scared so will you be with me like we used to on our road trips together, Love Love Love you my buddy, give hugs to our moms and dads for me. wife Jean signing off for now,,,,,,miss you dearly always and forever.

Hello Keith. My name is Alex and though we never met i feel like i know you. I guess we have some things in common. I do know one thing. You wife and kids love you so much and they all miss you dearly. I say you are with them even now watching over them. Your memory continues to inspire me. May the peace of the Lord Jesus christ be with you. You will never be forgotten. Amen

Hi Honey,
Well, we made it through Christmas and New Years and now your Birthday is coming up. I know you will have a beautiful celebration with our Lord, but my heart misses you each and every day. I have been in Lake Havasu since October Justin drove me out. Leigh and I were together in Las Vegas for the New Year..we went out for dinner than watch the fireworks from her apt. I wish you could have been with us. Justin, Leigh and I haven't been together for Christmas since you left.
I kept remembering all the big Christmas trees we would have on Hadley Rd. and Christmas morning when we would sit around opening our gifts, God Oh God it is so hard at Christmas without you. Your birthday is coming up next week, Dec and Jan. are so hard for me and the kids. You were our rock and you always inspired all of us because you were always so strong and worked so hard, my only regret in life will always be that you never got to retire and enjoy your children, I know how much you loved them and only wanted the best for them. I can still see you walking out to the pole barn on Hadley, God we had good times..we did it all. I always thought we would grow old together and still think of you every minute of every day. God only knows why we couldn't forfill our dreams we had together. I made so many mistakes with the money you left me, please forgive me for that. When you died I guess I went kind of crazy with everything, I was grieving you and had so many bills we were left with, sorry. Well, know that your children love you like I do and miss you so much I wish you were here to advise them they looked to you for that..bet you didn't even realize that. Hug everyone in Heaven for me and the kids and I will see you again..I hope you will remember me as the person who loved you even though I didn't do everything good like a wife should do, I always loved you with all my heart and always will. Bye for now honey. Love you forever. wife

Hi Honey,
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY, I miss you today and everyday. I remember and still have valentines cards you gave me, alot of them were funny. Not a happy day for me most of them aren't, I think about you everyday, all day, I wish you were here and we could do all the things we had planned when you retired. I am so sorry you did not have more time with your children, I know they meant everything to you and I know you were so proud of them. They miss you as much as me, you were our grounding and now we are all kind of lost. I know you are happy where you are at and wouldn't come back if you could, who would Heaven must be so unbelievably beautiful. I truly love you and hope I made you happy the years we were together, God knows we did more than most people do in 32 years and we had a good time doing it, well friend, lover and soulmate, goodnite and sleep tight in Heaven tonight. All my love forever....Wife

Hi Keith,
Well, I remembered every Holiday but here it is all at once. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and Happy Birthday. Came out to Havasu and Las Vegas, Justin came this time,it was the first time we are all together for New Years since you left. I don't like Havasu so much, not without you but I like being with Leigh in Las Vegas. I still feel like you will be walking through the door anytime saying...coffee done! We would sit down and talk and have our coffee for about 20 minutes and then you would head for the pole barn...God I miss our routine. I had a dream about you the other night and we hugged each other and were so happy that we found each other...it seemed so real. I think about you all day and night, I wish we would have had more time...Oh God I can't think anymore gotta go..I love you with all my heart and soul, I am sorry Keith. Jean

Hi Honey,
Happy belated Thanksgiving, have alot to be thankful for, I thanked the Lord for giving me you and our children. You were such a good husband and father and I miss you every single day from morning til I go to sleep. I still feel like you should be here talking to me and giving me those looks like whats up now. These Holidays are extra lonely and so sad they will never ever be the same. No more Christmas mornings..the four of us with our BIG Christmas Tree, I loved when we cut it down at the tree farms with the kids. I love you with all my heart and soul and I am sorry. Stay with me in my dreams when ever possible and don't leave me..I can sense you and picture you every where all the time. Like you never left me. Say hi to the Angels. By for now..Wife

Hi Keith,
Well, Memorial Day and Fourth of July have come and gone, Justin and I and your sister went over to Lois house on the 4th like we always did, the last time we were there together was 2008. Leigh is still living and working in Las Vegas. I went out to visit her for her Birthday and we went to Lake Havasu and stayed with Kay and Larry, we had a good time but I missed you, I know thats where you wanted to go when you retired. I think I am going to sell the Michigan condo and go out West I had such a good time hiking in Red Rock Canyon with Leigh. We were there in 1997 and one other time I cant remember. I had a dream about you last night that doesn't happen very often, I wish it did but when I woke up I was so sad all day, it seemed so real, I don't want anyone but you and never will, I know you would want me to be happy if I ever found someone else but I don't want it ever, you are on my mind every second of the day. I guess people would think I am crazy but who cares, we had our times in life that were tough but God always pulled us through and I will never forget every moment we spent together, I wish we could do it all again, I wouldn't change even the tough times, because thats what made us strong and we sure enjoyed alot of the better things in life. We all miss you, I wish you could have enjoyed your kids a little longer I know they were your whole life. Well, I am crying now and I just wish I could hold you and hug you and kiss you, when I think of all the times I could have and didn't it makes me sad but I just didn't know how little time was left. I love you forever and always Keith. Wife

Hi Honey,
I forgot to wish you a Happy Easter and already Memorial Day is coming. That was the weekend you always got the pool ready to open and I would help sometimes, I used to love knowing you would be home on 4 day weekends, even though you were in the pole barn I knew you were there. I miss you so much and our home on Hadley. I always wanted to be able to retire to Lake Havasu with you because we did everything together, even grocery shopping, something we never did together here in Michigan but it's all gone, first you left and then everything we worked for and dreamed of was lost. I know you are with our Lord and I sure hope you can help Jesus with helping our kids, they have not been the same since you left. I know how much you loved them and I regret with all my heart that you didn't get to enjoy your children in your retired years, I wish you could have walked your daughter down the isle on her wedding day and also your son. I know you always wanted to best for them and that's what you gave them. Right now I just want to get in the car and travel cross country with my buddy, we had the best times didn't we..it hurts deep down in my stomach when I realize you and I won't be taking our road trips anymore. I am crying right now because I still see you everywhere in my life, I feel so empty inside it's unexplainable, it seems like yesterday we met, and went to Los Gatos, California, that was so much fun living there, we did more and experienced more in life than most ever will but I wish I could just touch your face, hug you and feel your heart against mine, you will forever be the soulmate I could never replace, I will love you forever and miss all the things in our live, every time I see a mountain our West or a National Park..I see you and I getting out of the car to walk around and enjoy all the beauty, the canyons..remember we went to Canyonlands National Park in 2007. We all called out come on Poperosti it's time to get going, God you loved taking photos and they are all beautiful. I am going out to see Leigh in 2 weeks, I know you are watching over them with our Lord, well have a great heavenly day, Love you Keith....Wife

Well Honey,
With all that has happened the last couple of months and all the holidays, I totally forgot to come on here and say Happy Belated Birthday for Jan. 26th. I am so sorry, I was out at Leighs house and busy going to doctor visits and surgery and all the holidays, I rembered the day of your birthday but flew home the day after and well, I'm sorry. You know I love you very much, always did and always will, I miss you so much everyday, all of our dreams we had we were going to do after you retired, God I wish I could have you back but I know you wouldn't leave the presence of God for coming back here, I am so happy you are with the Lord but he knows how much I miss you and he understands, most people here think I should be fine and getting on with life, but you were my life, I wish I would have told you the time how much I loved you, I just hope you knew it, we never were much for being too mushy but we really loved each other. Well, I'm going to go now, goodnight honey I love you. Jean

Happy New Year Keith,
I love you and miss you so much, it is almost 2 years since you left me and I still can't even except that your gone. I think about you every second of the day and visualize you perfectly in my mind, it seems like only yesterday since I talked to you or touched you or just looked over and saw you laying on the couch watching the speed channel or the golf channel. Over Christmas vacation you would always come in from the polebarn to check on the football scores, then back to the pole barn, I know it was your favorite place in the world, I wish I never would have sold the Hadley house but I was so shook up and not thinking straight, we shared so much there, wish I could have stayed there until it was my time to leave this earth, I could have had peace and serenity there and felt your presence. I sure wish if you are in that cloud of witnesses that you could help Leigh, she hasn't been the same since you left or has Justin but our Leigh needs your advice, she has problems that break my heart but I can't get through to her, she resents me for giving advice it seems. Well, I let go and let God, she is in Gods hands, I think she is strong like you and I are so I know God will intervene in his good time. I love you and have to go now, please visit me in my dreams, say hi to both our parents and friends for me, I miss all you guys. Love you forever, wife.

Merry Christmas Honey,
I am watching The Christmas Story, you watch that movie every Christmas morning without fail. Well, no family over Christmas morn. like usual. Just Justin and I here and Leigh in Las Vegas, it surely is the loneliest time of the year without you, you used to go in the pole barn after everything settled down, I miss our Christmas's at that house, we always had a big tree and sat around in our pjs until about noon, I wish we were all together in the Hadley house, I wish I never would have sold it. I could feel you there whenever I went to the pole barn I could see you sitting on that old stool looking out the window just fiddling around with anything just to be out there. That was you special place. God, my heart aches for you every second of every day, I still expect you to walk in the door, like your in Germany or Illinois working and you will be home anytime, I still don't think of you as gone, I talk to you everyday and look at your photos in the house, they are everywhere, I often wonder if you can here me, your children could use some additional help if your in the cloud of wittnesses. Jesus is watching out for them but they are not doing well and I wish you were here to guide them, you were our grounding post, it was always you who we loved and waited for, I hope you know that. I want you to have a wonderful Christmas up there in Heaven on our Lords special day and personnally wish him a Happy Birthday for me and the kids. I am sorry I didn't know how sick you were or I would have taken better care of you than I did, forgive me for that, I love you, I always loved you from the start and will love you forever. Shine bright in the sky tonight I still go out early in the morning and at night to stare up at the stars because I feel like I am looking into the face of our Lord. Love you cowboy Jean

Hi Honey,
Today is Thanksgiving, so I bet it is real special in Heaven today your with your Mom and Dad and My Mom and Dad and Aunt Rewena say hi to everyone for me. We are going to Scott and Racheals remember you always used to say when are they going to ever have it well, wish you could have waited it out cause thats where we are going. It won't be the same without you and Leigh, Leigh is working all the Holidays this year, I wish we were at the Hadley house you, me, Justin and Leigh, the last one we had there was 2008 and you made the pumkin pies yourself, I never dreamed that would be out last Thanksgiving together, I had no idea how sick you were, cancer never entered my mind then everything happened so fast and you were gone. I still talk to you everyday and feel your presence at times greater than others, I sure hope you can hear me I talk to your pictures, I am so lost without you, I will never love anyone again, you were my buddy and soulmate, i wish I could see you and touch you, and hug you and see that smirk of yours. Sold the Palo Verde House, that guy George built a monster of a wall or I would have kept it. when I was there last year I could feel you presence there and it made me feel like nothing ever happened, nowhere will ever feel like home again because you haven't lived there with me. I wish we could have grown old together and died together. Your children are both still having a rough time, you see, it really was all about you, they loved you so much, none of us ever said the words enough to each other we just new we loved each other. Well, you have a great day today honey, I am trying to be happy but it seems useless I still can't stop crying I am never going to get over my love for you. Love you forever and ever and ever

Hi Honey,
Well, I remembered our Anniversary yesterday but forgot to come on here and tell you Happy Anniversay Honey, we always forgot and remembered later. Those years I spent with you were the best times of my life, you always inspired me to want to go, go, go and we were both early risers, we both enjoyed the mornings, wish I would have gotten up more with you when you worked but 4:00 was so early. I saw an inspirational worship this morning and some of the photos were from Arches in Utah so I looked over at your picture and said "hey honey remember when we were there." I always think everyday as I look at your photos of all the beautiful, adventureous trips we went on. God I wish you were here and we were having our last cup of coffee getting ready to hit the road about 5 and watch the sun rise as we are driving, God blessed us with so much of his beautiful world we got to see together. We stepped foot and ground all over the country. I miss you and love you with all my heart, I always loved you from the first time we met. You take care up there and ask Jesus if you can give us little signs yet of your presence in our lives, Leigh and Justin love you and miss you the same as me. I just want to see them happy before I leave this world and pray that God will allow that, wish I could touch you and hear your voice more than anything in the world. You will always be in my heart, please watch out for me and the children. Love Forever Wife

Hey dad, I miss you so much. MOm and Justin do too. Don't forget to wear sunscreen up there!

Hey dad, it's been a while since I wrote you on here. I'm just having a bad night and I really miss you. I hate to see how mom has to suffer without you and you guys never got to have what you worked for your whole life. I hope your really happy and I know mom can't wait to see you again. She tries to be strong but she is like half a person without you dad. We all miss you and I hope you still watch over us all the time.

Hi Honey,
Tomorrow is Fathers Day and I just wanted to say I know you will have a good one in Heaven. You were the best father to your children, they never went without anything they wanted or needed, I know they were always your first love, you were so proud of them. Its a very hard day for the kids and me but you know I saved everycard we ever gave each other and all the ones the kids gave us. Sometimes I get them out and read them, it just seems like you should still be here with us, I will love you forever, I always loved you, you were my one true love in my life. Things are getting a little easier for me but there isn't a day that goes by I don't talk to you outloud and see something that reminds me of you...you are my soulmate. Hey, I bet you and Rick play golf once in a while and you and Vince are wrenching on your cars up there and is far as your photograhy I bet you really get unimaginable pictures, you were getting real good with your camera. I have to say you were the hardest working husband and father I ever knew but I know how you loved to stay busy, well good night honey, stay with us always because you are always in my mind and heart, the kids and I love you with our whole hearts and souls. Your Wife xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Hey, its me.............lol Hi dad. How are you loving it up in heavin? Probably more than immaginable. Well mom looks forward to the day she gets to reunite with you, I want to see her happy again more than anything. I would give up my life for it. I know fathers day is coming up and its not an easy time for me, justin or mom. But I do want to say happy fathers day because I know sometimes you are around me. I would have bought you some sunscreen but I'm sure you dont need it up in heaven, it is so perfect. I am so thankful to God that you did not have to go through excrutiating pain dad. I could not have beared that. The last four days I saw you were the best days of my life. I miss you a lot dad and everytime I see a hot rod, which I see a lot. I think of you and how you would have loved it. I love you dad and I hope you are so happy and pain free with the Lord. Mom and justin miss you just as much as me. Please have a happy fathers day because you were the best father ever. You were very loved.

Happy Easter Honey,
Went to church this morning with Justin and then to dinner with a few of the family, it was lonely without you, Paul said he missed you and the talks you guys used to have. Leigh called me today, she calls everyday, she and Justin miss you too, been over a year now and it seems like only yesterday I saw you, I still cry almost everyday. I am left missing you and hurting for you but you are happy in the presence of our Lord, the Lord has seen my pain and hurting and helped me through each day but I have to tell you I will miss and love you until the end of my time. I wish I would have known how sick you were and helped you through your suffering but that isn't what you wanted, I must try and get on with my life but don't know how to yet. Everything I see, everywhere I go I think about us, you and me, Keith and Jean, theres just a big hole in my heart and I want to see ya. Well, gotta go, keep smiling down on our children they love you so much, love you wife.

Happy Valentines Day Honey,
I love you and miss you, went to church today with John and Elizabeth and then out to breakfast like can wre used to do. Its lonely when people visit me and then leave, I suppose it takes a while to realize you will have to get used to living alone. I just wish you were here and we could drive out West together and visit Leigh or something. Rick passed away this week, I bet you guys will be playing golf, you wrench on cars with Vincent. I went to make amemds with Marianne and Jim this week, I knew you would want me too and I am so glad I did. Its the first time I have seen any of our friends since you passed away and it just seemed like you were there with me, cause the last time you were with me there. Leigh moved to Las Vegas I sure hope she is finds happiness and settles down and has a family some day and Justin too. They are missing you terribly like me. Love you forever, Jean

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HONEY,
THE MOVERS CAME WITH THE FURNITURE TODAY, IT REALLY FEELS LIKE HOME NOW. YOU AND I PICKED EVERYTHING OUT TOGETHER, I SENSE A FEELING OF BEING SAFE AND COMFORTABLE NOW, WE PICKED EVERTHING OUT TOGETHER IN LAKE HAVASU IN OCT. 1999 WHEN WE WENT TO CLOSE ON OUR HOUSE THERE, WE ONLY HAD TWO WEEKS, WE RENTED THAT DODGE DAKOTA AND GAVE EVERYBODY IN TOWN A LITTLE BUSINESS. I ALWAYS REMEMBER WHEN YOU SAID WALMART SHOULD SEND A LIMO FOR US WHEN THEY SEE US COMING WE'VE BEEN THERE SO MANY TIMES. I THINK I MADE SOME GOOD DECISIONS, I ALWAYS TRY AND IMAGINE WHAT YOU WOULD HAVE DONE, ITS BEEN SO OVERWELMING THE LAST YEAR. I HOPE TO SPEND SOME MONTHS OUT OF THE YEAR IN LAKE HAVASU BUT WITHOUT YOU I JUST COULDN'T STAY ALL THE TIME, THAT WAS OUR DREAM AND I MISSED YOU TOO MUCH WHEN I WAS THERE, I REALLY LOVE OUR HOUSE THERE AND WOULD LIKE TO KEEP IT WITH ALL MY HEART, WE DESIGNED IT AND THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A PART OF YOU THERE, I AM LOST WITHOUT YOU AND STILL DON'T KNOW WHERE I BELONG, ITS LIKE STARTING LIFE OVER AGAIN AND I DON'T WANT TO, I HAD MY FAMILY AND NOW I CHOOSE TO BE ALONG BECAUSE I WILL LOVE ONLY YOU FOREVER, I THINK ABOUT YOU EVERY SINGLE HOUR OF EACH DAY AND I CAN STILL SEE YOU AND HEAR YOUR VOICE, I COULDN'T HAVE GOTTEN THIS FAR WITHOUT OUR LORD, HAVE A BEAUTIFUL, HEAVENLY BIRTHDAY!!!THERE IS ONLY LOVE, MY LOVE FOR YOU ALWAYS, GOODNIGHT HONEY. WIFE

Happy New Year honey, you said in the hospital "well 2008 was bad and it doesn't look like 2009 will be any better. Boy, you were right, it was the sadest and worst year of my life, my life without you, Leigh came to spend New Years with me, I wish you could have been with us, you were with us in our hearts, it will never be the same without you, there was nothing happy about this New Years Eve. Justin and Leigh and I will always talk about the happy and funny times we all had together, it still has not been accepted by us you are gone, not really, I guess it just all happened to fast, you were the center of our life-our life line, I envy all the people up in Heaven that get to be with you, like all of your friends said when you left, you always had a joke to tell and a smile for them, where ever you were in the 24 hour day you bought life and sunshine to the world around you, god I wish I would have told you that when you were here with me, but we always loved each other even when we were apart. Well, tell pops and your parents and Vincent and everyone else I said hello and I miss and love them all, bye for not honey, I love you forever. Wife

MERRY CHRISTmas Honey,
I know who you are spending the day with, I feel like you are with me this morning and I told you to open your gift first, then I opened mine. Its been a year now and seems like a blink of an eye, I have been so busy. There isn't an hour that goes bye everyday I can't picture you or imagine the sound of your voice. I know you wouldn't want us to be sad, Leigh and Justin love you and are lost, maybe you and our Lord could help them and guide them, I don't seem very good at it, I have to say this Christmas was sad and lonely without you but we know this is the day of our Lord, its not about gifts, its about the gift he gave to us when he died on the cross for us, and that is why you are in the most high place with him, I love you honey with all my heart and soul and will until the day I die and come to see you again. Keep wrenching on those hotrods and golfing on the golden grass up there, Oh how I wish we would have had more time together, you, me and the kids, it seems we just got started, you really loved and enjoyed your children, I thanks God he blessed us with them and with you. You were the best husband, the hardest working and best dad and we all loved you and will miss you forever. Oh, how I want to say "come on Baker lets go" do you know I still think about our coffee thing. Everymorning I make the starbucks and everynight about 5 when we had coffee together, you would always say "Coffee Done" I wish you a Merry Christmas Keith, I wish you could just your arms around me and hug me and tell me how everything is alright and that I will be alright, its tuff honey, real tuff, I'm never sure what I am doing, I wish we would still be at the Clarkston house, we had the happiest Christmas's there you always wanted a big tree, one year I need a latter to decorate it, remember. My heart cries, when will it stop, the pain in my stomach when I realize that your not really here, I just can't seem to accept it, please help me. I LOVE YOU LOVE YOU LOVE YOU,
come back to me, come back to me, come back to me right now Baker. Peace be with you, may the light shine on you, may you forever fill the dreams you left behind in Heaven above. Wife

Good morning honey, I love you and miss you with all my heart, I am out at the Havasu house, not sure how long I will be here. Today I am going to see Leigh and spend Thanksgiving. Your favorite kitty Chico that you loved to tease is gone, maybe you could guide his way home. Justin and Leigh are fine, they love and miss you so much, we all wish we had more time with the one we loved so much. Well, gotta go, say hi to everyone your with in Heaven, love you forever. Wife

Good Morning Honey,

Happy Anniversary, I love you with all
my heart, most of the time we always forgot our anniversary, but you remembered our 25th and bought me the beautiful ring I am wearing and I will cherish it forever. I see you so perfectly sometimes like you are right here with me, I want to tell you how much I love you and what a good husband and father you are, I am trying to make my life work but I am so lost without you honey, I will love you forever. Jean

Hi Honey,

I miss you so much, I came out to see Leigh in New Mexico, it seems like you are right beside me, it will never be the same without my buddy, I love you forever and will see you again. In Christ all my love for eternity. Jean

Hi Honey,

Eight months now, and it seems like no time has past since I last saw you. I still talk to you every day and still having our coffee together everynight like we used to, outside on the patio, I know you are real happy where you are but I sure wish I could see ya, talk to ya and yell out to the Pole Barn, hey Baker it's time for dinner.
Love you forever. Jean

I love you and miss each day that comes, I am so lost without you, I talk to you everyday because it seems like you should be here with me, I love you honey, I will love you forever. I miss having our Starbucks stops on the road, we sure had good times, bye for now. Wife

Hey Dad, Happy Fathers Day!! I am missing you a lot but I know your in a better place. I love you so much! Mom and Justin miss you too. I hope you have a wonderful Fathers day.

P.S. Wear Sunscreen

Love,
Leigh

I love you and can't stop thinking about you today, I know that you are happy but my heart is so empty, I will love you for all eternity honey. There is only love, Jean

Keith, I love you honey, we shared more life together than most in our short time, I am so happy and thankful to the Lord for that, I am going to Lake Havasu for Leighs birthday so she wont't be alone, I know you would want that, they miss you so much, but we know you are happy now with our Lord. All My Love Jean

Hi Honey, HAPPY EASTER, HE HAS RISEN!

Last year we were at church together for Easter, we really miss you today, I know how you loved chocolate candy on this day. I love you Keith forever, your loving wife Jean

I love you Keith, I miss calling you out of the Pole Barn for dinner, I would always yell at the top of my lungs, Baker it's time for dinner, you would always say I'll be in in 5 minutes, which was more like 15 minutes, that pole barn really was your first home, I am glad you enjoyed it for so many years and I am sorry for all the times I got mad at you for being out there so much, just a little jealous I guess. Leigh and Justin are missing you so bad yet, just like I am, we still can't believe you won't be walking thru the front door any minute. We all love and miss you so very much, your passing has changed our world. I know your spirit is all around us and always will be, well, good night honey Love You, Jean

Goodmorning honey, I miss you this morning really bad, Leigh just left to go back to San Diego this morning, now its really lonely, I love you always, I wish I could talk to you just one more time, but I guess that would never be enough, I will talk to you later, we will see each other again, until then I love you forever. Jean

I am so sorry to hear about Keith's passing. I always enjoyed his company while I was cutting his hair. Over the years I have learned quite a bit about your family, I know how proud he was of his children and how much he loved spending time with Jean, Leigh and Justin in Arizona. He was a great man who worked very hard for his family. He will be missed. Stephanie Teelander

Dear Jean and Family,
So sorry to learn of Keith's passing. We share your loss, in a much smaller way, but nonetheless, we will miss Keith's smiling presence and your mutual eagerness to explore the desert with us. Our time together was short, but certainly fun. We know that his and your appreciation for the natural beauty of this place we shared was very sincere. We can't believe he is gone. We'd love to see you when you're next here. Your Jeeping friends,

I am going to miss you Kieth. Thank you for being so kind and generous to me. This world has lost a good soul.

I have been steading thinking of you, Jean, Leigh and Justin. You all have been very blessed to have a guy like Keith and it is heart breaking that it had to end so soon. I know personally that he took awesome care of you all and were #1 to him. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.