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Educator, mentor to hundreds of Native American young people, master gardener and one of Santa Fe's Living Treasures, died Monday afternoon at El Castillo Retirement Residences in the Capital City. She was 96. Oleta was born Dec. 19th, 1908 in the southeastern Oklahoma town of Garvin and throughout her life remained exceedingly proud of her Choctaw Indian heritage. She is survived by two step-sons, George of Pena Blanca, Robert of Carson City, NV, a step-daughter, Cynthia Winn of Mesa, AZ, a sister, Mary and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Dr. George Boyce, who died in 1976, and by her parents William Rob Roy Merry and Lizzie Webster Merry. Oleta graduated from Murray Junior College with a teaching certificate then completed her BS degree in Home Economics at Oklahoma A&M, now Oklahoma State University.
She spent 20 years employed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Extension Service in Oklahoma and Arizona, working in Home Economics with Navajo and Pima women and children. In 1954 she went to work training thousands of Navajo girls in living and job skills at Intermountain Indian School at Brigham City, Utah for 8 years. In 1962 she came to the newly established Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe to head the Student Services Dept., overseeing the dormitories, dining hall and after-hour activities of the Indian students from all over the country. In 1964 she married Dr. George Boyce, founder and leader of the school.
She was very active in garden clubs: the Santa Fe Council of Garden Clubs, an honorary member of the Santa Fe Rose Society, Floral Designers, Las Sembradoras Garden Club, honorary member of the Santa Fe Iris Society, National Flower Show Judge Emeritus and a past president of the State Council of Garden Clubs. She hosted the national meeting of the State Council of Garden Clubs during her term as president. She was active in the First Presbyterian Church, serving as a Deacon and organizing numerous volunteer and service projects. She was active in her Church Circle until her death. She provided leadership in the Professional Home Economists organization and helped begin the Council of International Relations, to host visitors to Santa Fe.
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Star Gazette August 6, 2006
Donald Sargent Keeler, Age 96, died Sunday, July 30, 2006 at his home in Durham, North Carolina, after a long illness. Dr. Keeler was born on February 10, 1910 to Lillie M. Smith and Van Day Keeler of Wyalusing, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest of four children, with two brothers, Irving and Charles; and a sister, Georgia, all of whom predeceased him. He grew up in Sidney, New York, where his family published the Sidney Enterprise. In 1930 he married Leone Miriam Siver, also of Sidney, to whom he was married for 61 years. After her death in 1991, he married Ruth Eloise Coe of Perry and Syracuse, New York, who predeceased him in 2003. Dr. Keeler received his B.A. cum laude from Colgate University in 1933. He received his M.A. degree from Columbia University in 1940, and his Ed.D. degree in public administration from Cornell University in 1962. He started his career in education in 1933 in Walton, New York, teaching English, but soon moved into educational administration. His positions in the New York State public school system included Teacher, 1933-1939 and Principal, Walton Public High School, 1939-1941; Supervising Principal, Greene Central Rural Schools, 1941-1946; Superintendent, Perry Central Schools, 1946-1954; and Superintendent, Elmira City Schools, 1954-1966. In 1966, he joined the faculty of St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, where he taught educational administration until his retirement in 1973. Throughout his life, Dr. Keeler was active in civic, social, and musical organizations. He was an excellent singer, and appeared as baritone soloist with several choruses, as well as singing the lead in a variety of musical theatre productions. He was a member of Rotary International, and served four times as President of Rotary Clubs in his home communities. He also served on the Boards of the Durham Symphony, the Perry Boy Scouts Council, the Elmira Arnot Ogden Hospital, and several other civic organizations. He was an ordained Elder in the Presbyterian Church. At the time of his death, he was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Durham, North Carolina. Dr. Keeler is survived by three children, Dr. Margaret Lowell Keeler of Lakeland, Florida, Dr. John Day Keeler of Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Dr. Nancy Keeler Wilson of Chapel Hill, North Carolina; as well as 16 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews. A private family memorial service will be held. Arrangements are by the Cremation Society of the Carolinas.
Wife of Charles D Keeler
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Dorothy Keeler (1900-1976) served as the Chief Deputy County Clerk in Clark County, Nevada in the 1930s. In this position, she issued many marriage licenses to Hollywood celebrities and others who came to Las Vegas to get married.
Born Dorothy Alice Vanderwerkern in Otego, New York, she married Charles Keeler in Reno, Nevada in 1927. The couple relocated to Las Vegas where Charles Keeler worked for Frank Garside at the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The Keelers later moved to Washington, DC. Dorothy Keeler passed away on December 31, 1976.
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Mary Elizabeth Keeler, 86, of Port Republic, Maryland passed away on February 19, 2015 in Prince Frederick, Maryland. She was born on April 14, 1928 in Sidney, New York to the late Irving and Beulah Fisher Keeler. Mary was an elementary and middle school teacher from 1963 through the late 1980’s, who last taught at General Smallwood Middle School in Indian Head, MD. She loved classical music and was a violinist with COSMIC. She was also an animal lover and advocate who volunteered for many years with the Humane Society of Calvert County. Recently, she was a co-founder of Southern Maryland Pray & Neuter Inc. and the SPOT Thrift Store in St. Leonard where she worked as a fulltime volunteer for ten years.
Mary is survived by her former husband and father of her children, William McCormack, mother of Fabienne Ament, Marla Londraville, Sarah Dolinar and Ellen McCormack. She is also survived by her grandchildren, Nicole and Alex Londraville, Johnny and Susannah Dolinar, and Evan and Chloe Ament.
Services will be private.