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From: Vivian Brinker <>
Subject: [OKNOWATA-L] KEITH, Leila I.
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:29:29 -0600


Posted on: Nowata County, Ok Obits
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Surname: Alfrey, Berry, Johnson, Jordan, Keith, LeNoir, Lowe, Rotert
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Nowata Star
126 E. Cherokee St.
Nowata, OK 74048
April 4, 2001
Permission for archiving obituaries given by Phillip Reid, Publisher

Funeral services for Leila Inez Keith, 71, of Tulsa, who died Tuesday,
February 27, 2001 were held March 2 at Butler-Stumpff Chapel in Tulsa.
The Reverend Charles Secrest officiated. Interment followed in the Garden
of "The Last Supper" at Floral Haven Cemetery in Broken Arrow.

Leila was born January 14, 1930 in Gans to Alvie Levi and Mary Emma Johnson
Rotert. The family relocated to Tulsa in 1941 where her father worked at
Sun Oil Company. She graduated from Webster High School in Tulsa in 1949.
She married W.B. "Dub" Keith on December 17, 1951 at Little Kansas while
he was serving with the U.S. Navy.

As a Navy wife she followed her husband to Newport, Rhode Island; Quincy,
Massachusetts and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania until his discharge in 1955;
at which time they returned to Tulsa to make their home.

The eldest of ten children, she helped raise her siblings in addition to
raising her own two children. Leila devoted herself to her husband, her
children and her home. She loved to garden and can her own food. Making
quilts was a passion. Never known to sell any of them; they were always
given away as gifts to her family members.

Leila was preceded in death by her parents; one sister, Linda; two brothers,
Leon and Lonzo Rotert.

Mrs. Keith is survived by her husband of 49 years, Dub Keith of the home;
a son, Alen Keith and his wife, Cathi of Claremore; a daughter, Kay Keith
of the home; three brothers: Charles Rotert of Tulsa; Leroy Rotert of Claremore
and Harvey Rotert of Broken Arrow; three sisters: Lois Lowe of Delaware;
Luevon Alfrey of Tulsa and Mary Lou Jordan of Olathe, Kansas; three grandchildren:
Katie Berry of Owasso, Lance LeNoir of Chula Vista, California and Cliff
LeNoir of Tulsa;; two great-grandchildren: Joseph and Jessica Berry of
Owasso and a host of relatives and friends.


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