Claude Glenn "Bill" Keeling

Memorial services for Claude Glenn Keeling, 66, of Causey, will be held at 11:00 a.m., Thurs., Feb. 6, 2014, in the Wheeler Mortuary Chapel. Burial of his cremains will follow in the Causey Cemetery.
Claude Glenn Keeling, known to family and friends as Bill, was born Sept. 1, 1946. in Hartshorne, OK to the home of Georgia and Claudie Keeling, and died Jan. 31, 2014, in Lubbock, TX. At a very early age, he moved with his family to Friona, TX where he lived until he was eight years old. At that time the family relocated to Tulsa, OK, where he grew up and graduated from Central High School in 1966. After graduation, Bill joined the US Air Force, and was stationed at Cannon Air Force Base. It was while serving there that he met Sherribob Terral. The couple was married June 28, 1968, at the Sandia Baptist Church in Clovis.
Shortly after their marriage, Bill was sent to Viet Nam. He returned in 1969, and they moved to California where he was stationed until his discharge. He and his wife made their home in Tulsa and Collinsville, OK from 1970 until 2005 when they relocated to Causey, NM. Mr. Keeling was a machinist for the McKissick corporation making heavy equipment and heavy machinery for the oil fields. After moving to Causey, he began shredding fields for local farmers.
He enjoyed horseback riding, fishing, car racing and drag racing, watching football, especially the Sooners. In addition he liked to work on cars, repairing them and restoring them to their original beauty. He also enjoyed traveling.
He is survived by Sherribob, his wife of more than 45 years of their home; two daughters and a son-in-law, Sherri D'Ann and Leon Calhoun of Broken Arrow, OK and Patricia Carrol Watson of Tulsa, OK; three grandsons, Joshua and Justin Kallam and Tanner Watson and a granddaughter, Micah Watson; one great-granddaughter, Kylie Kallam; and a brother, Ben Keeling of Broken Arrow, OK.
He was preceded in death by both of his parents, two brothers, Tim Keeling and Billy Arthur Keeling, two sisters, Betty Kuykendall and Pat Largent; and two grandchildren, Tucker and Taylor Fowler.
Arrangements are under the direction of Wheeler Mortuary of Portales. 575-356-4455, wheelermortuary.net