Gary Keeth

Funeral services for Gary Elliott Keeth, 75 of Skiatook, Oklahoma were held Saturday, January 22, 2011 at 1:00 p.m. at The First Presbyterian Church in Skiatook, OK, with Reverend Dale Nielsen officiating. Interment in Osage Garden Cemetery in Skiatook, Oklahoma was under the direction of Peters-Stumpff Funeral Home. Casket bearers for the service were Scott Hunt, Ron Westmoland, Rick Westmoland, Rusty Westmoland, Clay Taylor and Earl Rozell. Musical selections for the service were Oh What A Savior , I Will Meet You In The Morning and Blessed Assurance , performed by Matt & Darla Neighbors. Gary passed away on January 19, 2011 in Tulsa. He was born March 13, 1935 in Beggs, Oklahoma to Jim and Rosie (Gatewood) Wolford. His mother passed away April 9, 1935 a short time after his birth. After his mothers death his father moved to California leaving Gary to be raised by his aunt and uncle Oren and Lillie Keeth who adopted and raised him in and around Skiatook. Gary attended Avant School for the first five years and then moved to Skiatook where Gary graduated in 1953. He attended Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College on a basketball & baseball scholarship. Later he attended OBU at Shawnee and Tulsa University. Gary accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as his Savior on February 9, 1958 at the First Baptist church in Skiatook while Reverend Earl Cleek was Pastor. Then on July 8, 1959 he surrendered to preach while attending the Eastern Heights Baptist Church in Tulsa. A short time later he went to OBU to study for the ministry. After leaving OBU he held Revivals in Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. In April 1988 he went to the Philippines to preach and start a new church and train a native new pastor. In 1989 he went to Ecuador to preach revivals and restart a church that needed help. In 1990 he went to Bolivia to preach revivals and speak at the University of Bolivia and to the leadership workers stationed there from the states. He accepted the call to become pastor of the Maplewood Baptist Church in Tulsa in 1989. He served there until having a heart attack in 1991. He is a member of the First Baptist Church in Skiatook. He is survived by his wife Correne of the home, six children: Gary Bob Keeth and wife Marcia, Elizabeth Taylor and husband Clay, Brian Keeth, Brenda McGuire, Lenda Downing, Sabrina Miller, three step sons: Rick Westmoland, Ron Westmoland, Rusty Westmoland and wife Genan, and 55 grandchildren and great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, Lillie and Oren Keeth, first wife Margie Keeth and a step son Randy Westmoland. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to St. Judes