TITLE:   Douglas Leighon Keys Jr., Obituary, Nov. 29, 2000

SUBMITTERS:  Portsmouth Herald, http://www.seacoastonline.com
             111 Maplewood Aveue, Portsmouth, NH (issue Dec 01, 2000 )
FORMATTED:   by CParziale, 2000

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Douglas Leighon Keys Jr. 

BIRMINGHAM, Mich. - Douglas Leighon Keys Jr., 83, of 875 Lake Park Drive, 
died Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2000, at his home. 

Born Sept. 26, 1917, in Roanoke, Va., he was the son of the late Douglas L.
and Marion (Philbrick) Keys. 

Raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., he was a graduate of Erasmus Hall High School in 
Brooklyn and received a bachelor of science degree in physics from the 
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, now Polytechnic Institute of New York. 

He was employed by the Sperry Gyroscope Co. during World War II as an 
instruction supervisor, training military personnel in the use and 
maintenance of anti-aircraft weapons. 

After the war he joined the advertising firm of Kenyon and Eckhart, where he
handled such accounts as Lincoln-Mercury, Shell Oil and Ford. 

His advertising career took him to Michigan then briefly to Connecticut and 
back to Michigan in 1958, which remained his home for the rest of his life. 

He became vice president of the company in 1956. 

Poor health forced an early retirement in the '70s but allowed more time 
every summer in his beloved Rye where he had spent childhood summers at the 
"beach" home, built by his grandfather at the corner of Cable Road and Ocean 
Boulevard. He would return to vacation at the Rye Beach house every summer of
his life until his health finally made that impossible this year. 


He was the husband of Margaret (Yoder) Keys for 56 years. 

In addition to his wife, family members include three sons, Richard R. Keys 
of Lawrenceville, Ga., Rodman B. Keys of Waterford, Mich., and Andrew P. Keys
of Redford, Mich.; five grandchildren; one sister, Natalie Cummings of 
Sarasota, Fla.; and two nephews. 

KEYS - Douglas Leighon Keys Jr., of Michigan, died Nov. 29, 2000. A graveside
service will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday in Central Cemetery in Rye. Friends
are respectfully invited. Arrangements by the Remick & Gendron Funeral 
Home-Crematory, Hampton. 

Douglas Leighon Keys Jr. 

HAMPTON - Services for Douglas Leighon Keys Jr., 83, of 875 Lake Park Drive, 
Birmingham, Mich., who died Nov. 29, 2000, were held Saturday from the Remick
& Gendron Funeral Home-Crematory, followed by a graveside service in the 
Central Cemetery, Rye. 

The Rev. John Solie, pastor of the Rye Congregational Church, officiated. 


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