Daniel Albert Keeler passed away peacefully at his home surrounded by his family on Wednesday, August 4, 1999. His supreme love for the Savior was reflected in how he treated everyone he met. Surely our lives have been graced by one of the truly noble and great ones.
Dan was born April 2, 1924, at Provo, Utah, to Daniel Mandeville and Virginia Christensen Keeler. He attended elementary and secondary schools in Carbon County, Utah, and did undergraduate and graduate studies at BYU and the University of Utah. He married his sweetheart, Felicia Fourie of Cape Town, South Africa, on June 11, 1951, in the Salt Lake LDS Temple.Dan was employed by the Radio Service Corporation - KSL Radio and Television - from 1944 to 1959 and was perhaps best known to local television audiences in his role as "Marshall Dan." From 1959 to 1961 he was employed part time by Salt Lake City Schools and from 1959 to 1987 by the State Office of Education where he assisted in pioneering the use of TV and other media for instruction and in establishing the Utah Network for the transmission facilities of several public television stations, including primarily KUED, Channel 7.
Dan Keeler was affiliated with a number of state and national organizations. From his youth, Dan was an active member of the LDS Church, serving in numerous ward and stake positions. He served an LDS mission to France and Belgium, taught early morning LDS Seminary and worked with the Temple Square mission in Salt Lake City from 1950 to 1959. He served as Superintendent of the Primary Children's Hospital Jr. Sunday School, as counselor in the Ensign Stake Sunday School, as a member of the bishopric in the 23rd Ward, and as a member of the Sunday School General Board and of the General LDS Curriculum Correlation Committee. From 1981 to the time of his death, Dan served as a Patriarch in the Bountiful East Stake.
He is survived by his wife Felicia; four children and a daughter-in-law: Larry D. Keeler (Donna), Linda Jackson (Lymon), both of Bountiful, Gail Bosen Keeler of Kaysville, Susan Welling (Brad) of Columbus, Ohio, and Clifton Gregg Keeler (Wendy) of Terre Haute, Indiana. He is also survived by 22 grandchildren and three sisters, Jennie Austin of Tempe, Arizona, Colleen Jones (J. Elroy) of Salt Lake City, and Ellen Thompson (Barry) of Orem, Utah. A son, Bradley F. Keeler, and a brother, Phillip F. Keeler, preceded him in death.
Funeral services will be held at 12 noon Monday, August 9, 1999 at the Bountiful 23rd Ward Chapel, 2200 South 650 East. Friends and family may call Sunday evening from 6-8 p.m. at the Russon Brothers Bountiful Mortuary, 295 N. Main, and again Monday morning from 10:45-11:45 a.m. at the church. Interment will be at Lakeview Memorial Estates in Bountiful.
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