Clarence H. Keyse

Clarence H. "Bud" Keyse was born on September 4, 1933, in Scott City, KS, to Delmar C. and Iva L. (nee Crist) Keyse. He passed away at his home in Newnan, GA, on July 8, 2024, with family by his side.

A funeral service was held at 10:00 a.m., July 16, 2024, at Kinsley Mortuary in Marysville, KS. He was laid to rest at the Marysville City Cemetery next to his beloved wife Sally.

Dad grew up on his family’s farm in Western Kansas, south of Scott City, farming and working animals. He went to New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, NM, September of 1949 to June of 1951 for his junior and senior years of high school, where he graduated as a Sergeant and received a football scholarship to Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS. He spent his summers on the farm and at age 17 he started custom wheat harvesting with a tractor, 2 trucks and a new combine in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, South Dakota and Montana. After the Montana harvest of 1951 was finished, he headed off to Kansas State to study pre-veterinary medicine.

In November 1952, he went on a blind date with Sally J. Rothfelder and it was “love at first sight”. They were married on September 6, 1953 and went back to farming in Western Kansas.

Through the years he farmed and irrigated thousands of acres for himself and others in Kansas, Utah, and Idaho. He helped build up the irrigation business in Western Nebraska, Utah, Idaho, and Canada. When not farming he was in the transportation business as Keyse Enterprises, LLC, with his son, Brad, as soon as Brad could obtain a license to drive semi’s. Dad drove about 5 million accident-free miles of which he was proud, loved to BBQ large amounts of food and served many people in several states, before he retired. Through the years our family lived in Kansas, Nebraska, Utah, Idaho, Texas, then 25 years ago he moved to Georgia, liked the climate and stayed. He learned to like gardening and raising chickens.

He worked hard all his life, but he enjoyed his down time as well. We will miss him greatly and we know he is at peace and with mother again.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Sally; parents; and two brothers.

Survivors include his daughters, Denise (Kenneth) Castelli, Tremonton, UT, Brenda (Jaime) Bermudez, Newnan, GA and Lechelle (Nicholas) Raffaele, Spicewood, TX; son, Bradley (Senthia) Keyse, Newnan, GA; 10 grandchildren; 14 great grandchildren; and 3 great-great grandchildren.