Wendy Lee Keeth

Wendy Lee Keeth, born November 3rd, 1973, passed away peacefully in her sleep at the age of 51 on Friday, December 13th, 2024, following a 9 year bout with cancer. She put up one hell of a fight, standing tall and showing us the true meaning of the quiet bravery, tenacity, courage, and strength she carried with her throughout her life. She smiled in the face of the disease right up to very end, emboldened by the unending and unconditional support from her loved ones. She was able to work alongside some of the top cancer doctors in the state, who treated her with the utmost care and consideration. They came up with new treatments to try time and again. We are forever grateful for that and their creative, critical, outside-the-box thinking that gave her precious time to spend with her family. In life, Wendy was the physical embodiment of love. She was fully present in the spaces she occupied and was always the first to know what a room and the people in it needed to flow properly. She was always doing something small, like making a stack of toast for people to flock around, which would lead to conversation and interaction. Her intuition was finely-tuned and honed around her family and the individual ways they feel and express their love. When she knew what needed doing, with love and grace, Wendy made it happen. Wendy was an incredible mother to her two sons, Tanner and Taylor, who she loved fully and completely. She raised them by building a sturdy foundation of kindness, compassion, and empathy to build their own lives upon. She was present every step of the way, guiding them and empowering them to take charge of their own lives. As her boys grew, she shared that love abundantly and freely with other children in the family, brightening and enriching them. She was able to be there to see both of her sons get married this year, and she got herself two daughters, Tinsley and Sydney, who she loved very much and shared that light with, even as the end of her life drew nearer. She continued to do everything in her power to make sure that her boys would be looked out for, loved, and set up for a life and a future without her in it. Wendy was a master at weaving the threads of life together. She was vibrant, intelligent, kind, strong, beautiful, and insistent on doing life her way. Her life, while shorter than she deserved, is complete. She goes to rest having enriched and enhanced the lives of everyone around her, and her light lives on through her family. She is survived by her parents Barbara & William Sales and Tamara & Willis Ray Keeth, her husband Willis Ray Keeth II, her siblings Christopher & Wendy Bjarnson, Lisa & Roger Hopkins, Amy Bjarnson, and Michael & Stephanie Bjarnson, and her children Tanner & Tinsley Keeth and Taylor & Sydney Jepperson. It was not in her wishes to have a service, so there will not be one held. “It is my hope that when you look back on my mom’s life, you don’t remember her for the disease that shortened her life, but for the good she put into the world, for the love she shared so freely and abundantly. Remember her on windy days, when you feel joy, when you win, when you celebrate. Wendy is free, now, to be the very love that she embodied.”

Wendy Lee Keeth

November 3, 1973 - December 13, 2024