The Life of RAYMOND R KELLER
Services for Raymond Keller, 65, of 6690 N.W. Timberline Drive will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Highland Park Christian Church, with burial in Highland Memory Gardens Cemetery.
Mr. Keller died of heart failure Sunday at Mercy Hospital after a lengthy illness.
Mr. Keller was born in Hayes Township in Buena Vista County and lived in Storm Lake before moving to Des Moines 40 years ago.
He was the retired president of the Keller Co., the painting firm that regilded the Iowa State Capitol dome with gold leaf from 1964 to 1965, and also redecorated the House and Senate chambers at the Iowa Statehouse.
Mr. Keller, a veteran of World War II, was a member of the Des Moines Consistory, the Home Masonic Lodge, the Za-Ga-Zig Shrine, the Master Builders of Iowa, the Painting and Decorating Contractors of America, the Shriners Hospitals for Crippled Children and the First Methodist Church at Storm Lake.
Survivors include his wife, Christina E.; a daughter, Mrs. Peggy Jagerson of Ankeny; three brothers, Joe of Denver, Colo., Roy of Arnolds Park and James of Jefferson; two sisters, Mrs. Katherine Wise of Storm Lake and Marie Keller of Chicago, Ill., and two grandchildren.
The family suggests memorial contributions to the Shriners Hospitals, or the Highland Park Church.
The body is at Arnold''s Highland Park Funeral Home.
Mr. Keller died of heart failure Sunday at Mercy Hospital after a lengthy illness.
Mr. Keller was born in Hayes Township in Buena Vista County and lived in Storm Lake before moving to Des Moines 40 years ago.
He was the retired president of the Keller Co., the painting firm that regilded the Iowa State Capitol dome with gold leaf from 1964 to 1965, and also redecorated the House and Senate chambers at the Iowa Statehouse.
Mr. Keller, a veteran of World War II, was a member of the Des Moines Consistory, the Home Masonic Lodge, the Za-Ga-Zig Shrine, the Master Builders of Iowa, the Painting and Decorating Contractors of America, the Shriners Hospitals for Crippled Children and the First Methodist Church at Storm Lake.
Survivors include his wife, Christina E.; a daughter, Mrs. Peggy Jagerson of Ankeny; three brothers, Joe of Denver, Colo., Roy of Arnolds Park and James of Jefferson; two sisters, Mrs. Katherine Wise of Storm Lake and Marie Keller of Chicago, Ill., and two grandchildren.
The family suggests memorial contributions to the Shriners Hospitals, or the Highland Park Church.
The body is at Arnold''s Highland Park Funeral Home.
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