Maxine Joanne Lewis Keck

Maxine Joanne Lewis Keck was born October 20, 1931, in Manhattan, Kansas to Harry and Erma Lucille Willis Lewis. Maxine passed away at the age of 92 on September 10, 2024.

 Maxine graduated from Manhattan High School in 1949 and attended Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas where she met her husband Roy E Keck (April 22, 1931-September 7, 2019). They met in the university choir and performed together in the operetta “Down in the Valley.” They were married on December 28, 1952, in Topeka, Kansas. They were sealed together in the Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah on June 15, 1956. They spent 67 loving years together.

 During her college years she worked for the Horticultural and Entomological society and for the Highway Department of Kansas as an assistant payroll clerk. From 1954 to 1974 Roy and Maxine raised a family and lived throughout the United States including Alaska as Roy was a rescue helicopter pilot for the United States Air Force. They made their permanent home in Kaysville and Layton Utah.

 Maxine enjoyed being a stay-at-home mom for her 5 children. She devoted most of her time, efforts and energy to being a faithful and diligent wife, mother, and homemaker; teaching, training, and supporting her family in every way possible. She was also a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints where she served in many callings including a primary teacher and chorister and Relief Society president and was loved by all.

 She loved music, Family History, sewing and making a pleasant home for her family. She was very musically talented and sang in many church choirs and duets to include a 400 voice Relief Society choir in the Salt Lake Tabernacle on Temple Square in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Church.

 She and Roy completed three years as stake missionaries, a full-time mission in Birmingham England, a service mission at the Employment and Resource Center in Layton, Utah and served as ordinance workers in the Bountiful, Ogden, and Washington D.C. temples.

 She enjoyed traveling with Roy to the Holy Land, Egypt, Europe, Australia, the Caribbean, Canada, Hawaii, and Mexico.

 She enjoyed her life, and the love of her life was her husband, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren and the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

 She is survived by her five children Brad (Patricia) of Queen Creek, Arizona, Diane Fisher (Blaine) of Layton, Utah, Mitchell (Christy) of Lehi, Utah, Steven (Deana) of Layton, Utah, and Andrew (Holly) of Centerville, Utah, 12 grandchildren, 7 step grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren and step grandchildren.

 Maxine is also survived by her brothers-in-law Douglas R. Keck (Kaylene), Elmo C. Keck, and Dean Thomson. She was preceded in death by her husband, Roy E. Keck, her parents, Harry and Erma Lewis, younger brother, Harry Dean Lewis and grandson Dallan Mitchell Keck.

 A special thank you to the staff at Abbington Senior Living Memory Care facility. They were wonderful to her and made her passing comfortable.

 Funeral services will be held Saturday, September 21, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Fiddlers Creek Ward building located at 380 South Fairfield Road, Layton, Utah. Friends and family may visit Friday, September 20, 2024, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Kaysville Lindquist Mortuary, 400 North Main Street and Saturday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the Fiddlers Creek Ward. Interment, Kaysville City Cemetery

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