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Keith Retzer

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Keith Moody Retzer was born Feb. 15, 1944, at Albert Lea, Minnesota. While he was a preschooler, he and his family lived in Brazil. He attended two years of High School in Mexico City, and graduated from High School in North Riverside, Illinois. He attended and graduated from Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas and DeVry Technical Institute in Chicago, Illinois. While at Ottawa, he met and married Vi. He worked as an engineer and sometimes announcer at various radio stations throughout Illinois, Nebraska, Iowa, Oregon, and Montana. In 1979 through 1980, the family served as short term assistants with Wycliffe Bible Translators at Yarina, Peru, where Keith repaired electronics and radio equipment for the missionary airplanes. In 1988, he moved his family from Missoula, Montana to Pittsburg, Kansas, where he took the job of chief engineer at KRPS at Pittsburg State University. When he retired, he became Chief Engineer Emeritus of PSU. An avid stamp collector, his other main hobby was HAM radio. He operated under the call signs W7KEU, OA8AX (while in Peru), and after returning to Kansas, W0KEU.  

Keith was preceded in death by his parents, Eldon and Opal. He is survived by his wife of the home, Vi; his brother, Kent Retzer (wife Jeanne) of Rockford, IL; his daughter of the home, Faith; his daughter, Joy Stahl of Elkhart, Kansas; and grandsons: Wesley Stahl and Kelson Stahl. A memorial service will be scheduled by the family at a later date. (No flowers or other plants, please.) 

Arrangements are under the direction of the Bath-Naylor Funeral Home 522 S. Broadway Pittsburg KS.