Harold Keller

Harry

Baldwin Filters 30 years

Kearney State College, Married Janet Henderson, Worked for Good Sam Hospital for four years, Worked for Baldwin Filters for eight years in Kearney then 22 years in Virginia. Divorced 1998. Moved to Fort Collins, Colorado in 2007, Johnstown in 2008, Started vending machine business. Moved to Firestone in 2011 with Marge. Retired in 2011. Wrote David's Gifts in 2014. Moved to Arizona in 2017, Surprise in winter, Prescott Valley 2019, in summer. Moved to Surprise full time in 2023. Marge passed in Sept. Wrote Olivia's Cancer '22-'25. Have been writing for Writer's contests for fun. Am host for Writer's Workshop at Happy Trails Resort. We meet every Monday morning. We have 16 members. Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "Do something scary every day." Yeah, I tried Karaoke, twice. Bought a house on the golf course. So far no direct hits. It has a huge saguaro cactus (25') in the yard. Scary walking around it. Hope it never comes down. I don't want to be around when it does.

After graduation Tom Tingle, Roger Comstock and myself headed to Atkinson to see Tom's Atkinson friends graduate. We drank beer, played golf and met a lot of tom's old friends. We had a great time.



Right now I want to talk about the day Tom Heller and I played hooky and went to Holdridge to see his old school friends. We had a great day. Wish I'd gotten to know him better. Now he's gone. We went to his old school and then drove by the High School. Saw some friends of his. Walked around the football field.

Kearney drive inn on Fridays before a Saturday track meet or cross country race. Cherry vodka, puking, running a race the next morning and puking some more. Screwed up my pyloric valve and herniated my esophagus. Great times. It took three surgeries to straighten it out.

I remember Harmon Park swimming pool and Cottonmill lake and of course the pits but I enjoyed cruising main and 25th on Friday night. I wonder if they still do that.

I live in Happy Trails resort in winter. Roy Rogers theme with roads named for characters in Roy and Dale's life. Dale Evans Blvd, Roy Rogers Avenue, Nellie Bell rd. etc. I live on Mule Skinner. Four swimming pools, tennis courts, exercise room, library and lots of entertainment.
We spent three weeks in Spain in 2018. Did the Mediterranean cruise. From Barcelona went to Florence, Rome, Caans, Pompei. Would like to go to the United Kingdom for three weeks. Hopefully in 2026.

Would have studied harder and gotten better grades especially in math. I didn't like school. Never studied much, except for Chemistry.