DECATUR — Graveside service for Ann “Lady” Keahey will be Wednesday, July 3, 2019 at 1 p.m. at Roselawn Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at Roselawn Funeral Home.
Ann Keahey is preceded in death by her parents, Estelle Cureton and Walter Cureton; her brother, Walter Cureton; sister, Rosemary Kilpatrick and her husband, Dr. John R. Keahey.
She is survived by her sons, David (Katie) Keahey, John (Michele) Keahey, Bob (Sam) Keahey; and grandchildren, Johnnie Keahey, Elizabeth Grace Keahey, Dale Keahey and River Keahey.
Ann was born in Orne, Tennessee August 22, 1937. She attended David Lipscomb University and was a longtime resident of Decatur, Alabama. Ann was born a coal miner’s daughter; a disposition that sculpted her character which radiated a sense of honesty, integrity, fairness and grit that influenced everyone around her. Ann wore her honesty on her sleeve; unnerving to the disingenuous, but refreshing to the rest.
She passed down an inherent set of values from which a lifetime of observation and practice can collectively be summarized as this; You are not better than anyone else, but no one else is better than you. She passed down a sense of being and humility. A sense of strength and modesty. A sense of fairness and humanity.
Ann will forever be missed, always emulated, and never forgotten.
Published in the Decatur Daily on July 2, 2019
Ann Keahey is preceded in death by her parents, Estelle Cureton and Walter Cureton; her brother, Walter Cureton; sister, Rosemary Kilpatrick and her husband, Dr. John R. Keahey.
She is survived by her sons, David (Katie) Keahey, John (Michele) Keahey, Bob (Sam) Keahey; and grandchildren, Johnnie Keahey, Elizabeth Grace Keahey, Dale Keahey and River Keahey.
Ann was born in Orne, Tennessee August 22, 1937. She attended David Lipscomb University and was a longtime resident of Decatur, Alabama. Ann was born a coal miner’s daughter; a disposition that sculpted her character which radiated a sense of honesty, integrity, fairness and grit that influenced everyone around her. Ann wore her honesty on her sleeve; unnerving to the disingenuous, but refreshing to the rest.
She passed down an inherent set of values from which a lifetime of observation and practice can collectively be summarized as this; You are not better than anyone else, but no one else is better than you. She passed down a sense of being and humility. A sense of strength and modesty. A sense of fairness and humanity.
Ann will forever be missed, always emulated, and never forgotten.
Published in the Decatur Daily on July 2, 2019
DECATUR — Graveside service for Ann “Lady” Keahey will be Wednesday, July 3, 2019 at 1 p.m. at Roselawn Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at Roselawn Funeral Home.
Ann Keahey is preceded in death by her parents, Estelle Cureton and Walter Cureton; her brother, Walter Cureton; sister, Rosemary Kilpatrick and her husband, Dr. John R. Keahey.
She is survived by her sons, David (Katie) Keahey, John (Michele) Keahey, Bob (Sam) Keahey; and grandchildren, Johnnie Keahey, Elizabeth Grace Keahey, Dale Keahey and River Keahey.
Ann was born in Orne, Tennessee August 22, 1937. She attended David Lipscomb University and was a longtime resident of Decatur, Alabama. Ann was born a coal miner’s daughter; a disposition that sculpted her character which radiated a sense of honesty, integrity, fairness and grit that influenced everyone around her. Ann wore her honesty on her sleeve; unnerving to the disingenuous, but refreshing to the rest.
She passed down an inherent set of values from which a lifetime of observation and practice can collectively be summarized as this; You are not better than anyone else, but no one else is better than you. She passed down a sense of being and humility. A sense of strength and modesty. A sense of fairness and humanity.
Ann will forever be missed, always emulated, and never forgotten.
Published in the Decatur Daily on July 2, 2019
Ann Keahey is preceded in death by her parents, Estelle Cureton and Walter Cureton; her brother, Walter Cureton; sister, Rosemary Kilpatrick and her husband, Dr. John R. Keahey.
She is survived by her sons, David (Katie) Keahey, John (Michele) Keahey, Bob (Sam) Keahey; and grandchildren, Johnnie Keahey, Elizabeth Grace Keahey, Dale Keahey and River Keahey.
Ann was born in Orne, Tennessee August 22, 1937. She attended David Lipscomb University and was a longtime resident of Decatur, Alabama. Ann was born a coal miner’s daughter; a disposition that sculpted her character which radiated a sense of honesty, integrity, fairness and grit that influenced everyone around her. Ann wore her honesty on her sleeve; unnerving to the disingenuous, but refreshing to the rest.
She passed down an inherent set of values from which a lifetime of observation and practice can collectively be summarized as this; You are not better than anyone else, but no one else is better than you. She passed down a sense of being and humility. A sense of strength and modesty. A sense of fairness and humanity.
Ann will forever be missed, always emulated, and never forgotten.
Published in the Decatur Daily on July 2, 2019
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