Pontotoc Co., OK - Obits: Keith Edward Shanks-Reece ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Shelley Lynch USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** Keith Edward Shanks-Reece 1972 - 2007 Keith Edward Shanks-Reece was born November 25, 1972 in Ada, Oklahoma and passed from this life in OKC, OK on April 22, 2007 at the age of 34 following an auto accident which occurred April 18, 2007. Keith graduated from Haskell High School in 1991 and from the University of Tulsa in 2001 with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He worked for Sciperio Corporation in OKC at the time of his death. He married Katina Fries on October 26, 1996 in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Keith proudly served four years in the US Navy during Desert Storm and was an avid hunter and fisherman. Mr. Reece was preceded in death by his maternal grandfather Loyd Jackson and paternal grandparents Disney and Jessie Reece. He is survived by his wife Katina Reece of the home in Okemah, OK, three sons; Buddy Shanks of Tulsa, OK, sons Kalton Reece and Kolby Reece and daughter; Karis Reece all of Okemah, OK, brother; Dan Reece Jr. of Muskogee, OK: sister; Amber Arnold and husband Brent of Haskell, OK:, grandmother Thelma Jackson of Okmulgee, OK; great-grandmother Mae Harmon of Springfield, MO, special niece and nephew; Danielle and Seth Arnold of Haskell, OK, by a much loved extended family which includes his parents-in-law; Susan and Bolie Hyde of Jacksonville, FL and Gunther Fries of Jacksonville, FL, and grandparents-in-law, Geraldine and Robert Johnson of Zion, IL. Words cannot describe how much he was loved, respected and admired by everyone and he will be missed greatly. Things will never be the same without him