Keith LeRoy STRAHORN

STRAHORN, RUSS, SMITH, FREDRICKS, ROSENE, KNOCK, LOWN, SCHAEFER, RHODES, HIGGINS, CHAPPELL, WISCUS

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/25/2015 at 19:59:47

June 24, 1921 --- August 7, 2015

Keith LeRoy Strahorn passed from this life Friday, Aug. 7, 2015, at HCI Hospice House in Creston. Keith LeRoy Strahorn was born June 24, 1921 to Ray L. and Alva (Wilson) Strahorn in Iowa Falls. Keith married his high school sweetheart, Martha Jeanne Russ, and they celebrated 70 years of marriage in 2012. Keith was a staff sergeant and gunnery instructor in the U.S. Army Air Force during WWII. After the war, he worked as a commercial pilot and acrobatic flight instructor in Marshaltown. Keith and Jeanne owned and operated Strahorn Hardware in Kanawha, and later purchased Iowa Falls Roofing Company and relocated to Iowa Falls. Keith and Jeanne retired to Tucson, Ariz. in 2000, where they enjoyed golf, travel and friendships during their retirement years before moving to Prairie View Assisted Living in Creston in 2012.

Keith graduated from Iowa Falls High School in 1939 and Ellsworth Junior College in 1941. Keith was a Master Mason, member of the El Kahir Shrine and an Exalted Ruler of the Iowa Falls Elks Club and the Tuscon American Legion. He enjoyed travel, golf, reading and card games.

Keith was preceded in death by his wife Jeanne; parents, Ray and Alva Strahorn; sisters, Gladys Smith, Golda Fredricks, and Helen Rosene; and brothers, Frank (in childhood) and Kenneth. Keith is survived by his daughters, Kathy Strahorn of Tucson, Ariz., Janet Knock (Karl) of Creston, and Barbara Strahorn of Tucson, Ariz.; grandchildren, Joel Lown (Jessica) of Des Moines and Zachary Schaefer (Emily Rhodes) of Urbana, Ill; nieces and nephews, Martie Higgins of Los Angeles, Calif., Judi Wiscus of Sioux City, S.D., Beverly Chappell of Portland, Ore., and Bob Smith of Muscatine; and several great nieces and nephews.

Memorials in his name can be made to the Robert W. Barlow Memorial Public Library in Iowa Falls; TEPOA Library, Tucson Estates in Tucson, Ariz.; or Homestead Assisted Living and Memory Care in Creston. The family plans private services in Tucson, Ariz., on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015. Pearson Family Funeral Service, 809 W. Montgomery St, Creston, is in charge of local arrangements.

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