WILLIE DALE KEATTS

May 06, 2019

GOLDEN CITY- Services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Daniel Funeral Home in Lamar for Willie Dale Keatts, 93, Golden City, who died Friday, May 3, 2019, at Good Shepherd Community Care in Lockwood. Burial will follow in Rock Prairie Cemetery in Halltown.

Visitation will be held from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday, at the funeral home.

Contributions are suggested to the American Cancer Society, in care of the funeral home.

Condolences may be shared at www.dfhlamar.com.

Survivors include three sons, Wayne Keatts and wife Jean, Golden City, Max Keatts and wife Vickie, Greenfield and Leroy Keatts and wife Joyce, Lamar; one daughter, Linda Ward and husband Ron, Springfield; a daughter-in-law, Rhonda Keatts, Springfield; a sister, Charlene Burky, Billings; 13 grandchildren, Lacy Davenport, Ashley Newman, Matthew Keatts, Jeffrey Etem, Jill Doke, Tina Stump, Lisa Kinnunen, Michael Keatts, Scott Keatts, Jana Cooper, Jeremy Keatts, Jessica Schwarzkopf and Jenni Keatts; 27 great-grandchildren and 7 great-great-grandchildren, as well as many nieces and nephews. She is also survived by a very special son, Wilbur Rauch, Nixa.

She was preceded in death by her husband, James Keatts; a son, Alan Keatts; a sister, Susie Burkey and a great-granddaughter, Kelly Jo Stump.

Mrs. Keatts was born Aug. 31, 1925, in Billings, to Amos E. and Glenn (Ward) Oetker. She was a graduate of Billings High School and attended Teachers College, what is now SMS in Springfield. She married James Henry Keatts on Aug. 23, 1947, in Bentonville, Ark., and together they reared five children.

Mrs. Keatts was an elementary school teacher in rural Marionville and Republic, worked at Rice’s Feed Store in Golden City and helped start the Barton County Health Department where she worked for 20 years, retiring in 1988. After retirement she and her husband bought the old Golden City Lumber Yard and converted in into a daycare that she operated for 14 years until retiring again at age 78. She loved to read and play Pitch, but her greatest love was to be with her family. She was a member of the Golden City United Methodist Church.



Eiskina Logging
Hometown Chiropractic
Elks 2024 Egg Hunt