Keenan Michael-Charles Wegener

1994 - 2022

Longtime Sterling resident, Mr. Keenan Michael-Charles Wegener, 27, was brutally murdered Friday, March 18th, 2022, in Anchorage, AK

A memorial service will be held 2:00 p.m. Saturday, April 9th, 2022, at Ministry of Living Stones Church – 32930 Fair Game Ave. – Sterling, Alaska 99672. The service will be streamed for those unable to attend, if you would like to send a message to be read, email akmls.inc@gmail.com. Open mic for all who knew and loved him.

Keenan was born October 6, 1994, in Anchorage, Alaska. He was valedictorian of Academy of Higher Learning, attended George Mason, Linn Benton Community College and George Washington University. He was a resident of Alaska the day he popped out and loved the state but when he went east for school it stole his heart; his heart and his home was Reston, Virginia. He had worked at Cook's Corner Tesoro, Alaska Fish On Charters, Jimmy Jack's Fishing Charters, owner Keenan's Kenai Fishing Adventures, Mama's Wilderness BBQ and Rub LLC, and partner of CSACS LLC.

Keenan was a member of the Ministry of Living Stones, Students for Liberty, and Young Americans for Liberty. He received a UAA Scholar Award, the AHL Community Service Award, and IFFF Spirit Award for the Movie "48 Below".

Keenan loved family, friends, fishing, cooking, reading, discussing, bantering, and building.

His family and friends wrote, "He was one incredible young man, he defended the helpless. He loved kids and kids loved him. He was a protector; our laughter and conversations will be missed. He was kind, compassionate, hardworking, honest, and brave, going out of his way for others, literally give the shirt off his back, anyone who met him was impacted by his character. We will miss the quiet moments, the loud and the best part the laughter. Keenan was reliable, his integrity important. He had a love for knowledge and had brilliant ideas. He knew the quirkiest trivia. He would stop and talk to a homeless person for hours, as easily as, he could talk to a politician or a businessman. He never knew a stranger. He traveled the world as a missionary and had plans to help build a youth church in Mexico. He had an unrequited love for adventures (#keenan) and would stop to admire sunsets or sunrises. He made sure that everyone was safe, and when he didn't lose his phone(s) he was just a call away. He lost more phones than he was old. He loved to bop in at different people's homes just to say hello and shoot the breeze. He loved God, Jesus, and The Holy Spirit. He lived life to the fullest and had the greatest adventures. He is going to be sorely missed. We feel bad for all the people who could have met him and will never get the chance. They will have no idea who they missed out on. The stories of his adventures were so incredulous and invariably true. I can hear him now… "Lord, you are so not going to believe how I died, some crazy Ass Shit, but seriously it's true. Man, I don't know, nobody is going to believe this. Right?" and then chuckle.

He is survived by his mother, Tina Wegener of Sterling; almost parents, David and Verissa Walber of Sterling; aunt and uncle, Jamie and Rhonda Blackstone of Florida; siblings, Michael Uwekoolani and Maiamaree Uwekolani of Anchorage; church family all of ministry of living stones in Sterling; former wife, Jamie Stram of Oregon; East Coast Mom, Rohini Solos of Reston, VA; Extended family, Wegener's, Miller's, Blackstone's, Hale, Stretches, Two Hearts,and Morsette's of OR, VA, WA, ND, and NE; special people, Celeste, Donna, Amy, Kalee, Alivia and Jose; and grandmother, Hilda Fenstrum of Michigan.

He will he scattered in his favorite places in Alaska, Virginia, and MaryLand.

Arrangements made by Peninsula Memorial Chapel.