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Keith Stewart, 52, passed
away Friday, February 29, 2008 at Trinity Regional Hospital in Fort Dodge,
Iowa. Funeral services were March 4,
2008, at Lampe Funeral Home in Lake City, Iowa with Rev. Betty Weidert officiating.
Burial was in Oaklawn Cemetery in Auburn,
Iowa. Keith Alan Stewart was born
December 5, 1955 in Pensacola, Florida.
He grew up in Pace, Florida, and graduated from Milton High School in
1973. He moved to the Pascagoula,
Mississippi area where he learned to be an electrician by trade in the
Mississippi Gulf Coast Jr. College apprenticeship program through Litton Industries
at Ingalls Shipyard. He moved to
Denver, Colorado, in 1978 where he held a Master Electrician License and
lived there until 1991 when he moved to Sacramento, California. He married Donetta
Smith Fitzgerald on May 28, 1994, and their son, Zachary, was born that same
year. They lived on a ranch in
Winters, California, until August of 2006 when they moved to Donetta’s dad’s farm in Auburn, Iowa. He was employed by Menninga
Electric, Inc. in Carroll. Keith loved to golf,
especially with his best friend Dave McIntire in California. He loved nature and wildlife and taking
long walks around the farm. He said he
always dreamed of living on a property with a creek passing through, and he
couldn’t believe it had come true. He
cherished time spent with his son Zack and his favorite moments were those
spent with family and friends. He was
a good man, a man of his word who lived his life by the principles take pride
in all you do and help somebody when you can.
His passing leaves a hole in the lives of those who knew him. He was preceded in death by
his father, James Stewart and brother, Frank Stewart. Keith is survived by his
wife, Donetta and son Zack of Auburn, Iowa; mother
and step-father, Shirley and Leo Halpin of Pace,
Florida; two brothers, Craig (Joy) Stewart of Pace, Florida and Mark (Tina)
Stewart of Navarre, Florida; sister-in-law, Diane (James) Lansdon
of Pace Florida; father-in-law, Don Smith of Lake City, Iowa; sister-in-law,
Sheila (Denny) Moulds of Auburn, Iowa; sister-in-law, Marylyn (Jim) Gillespie
of Lake City, Iowa; several nieces and nephews and many friends. |