Timothy G. Keil
Hello 'Pussy' it's Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and Pippi Longstocking:
It’s true that your ratings are the lowest of any modern president at this point in a first term, which has hamstrung his ability to pass any major legislation.
Scratch a Trump supporter, and you’re likely to find someone
deeply pessimistic about America and its future. Few believe that you
will be able to bring back the good times (however they define them)
because they’re convinced that the system is rigged: The “deep state” is
too entrenched, the demographic tide too advanced and the global elite
too powerful to allow real change. Still, they appreciate you for fighting the fight, especially when it involves going against
the wishes of your own party and the customary norms of presidential
behavior.
Betty MacDonald fan club fans,
Jerry Keil, husband of Betty MacDonald's daughter Joan MacDonald Keil passed away 17 years ago.
He died of cancer at the age of 77 on April 22, 2000.
Jerry became an FBI agent based in Seattle in 1947.
Betty MacDonald describes this in her book 'Onions in the Stew'.
According to Wolfgang Hampel, author of the Betty MacDonald Biography and interviewer of Betty MacDonald's family and friends, published on CD and DVD by Betty MacDonald Fan Club, Jerry Keil was the kindest man on earth. Jerry was unique and answered every letter and many questions from Betty MacDonald Fans all over the world.
Jerry Keil became Joan MacDonald Keil's adviser as she lobbied publishers to reprint the out-of-print "Nancy and Plum." When publishers rejected the reissue, Jerry and Joan printed and distributed the book themselves.
They included some beautiful family photos in this very special edition of Nancy and Plum. Both did a great work to bring Nancy and Plum back to the audience.
Jerry and Joan's son Timothy Keil, 61, was killed in a head-on collision on South Whidbey Saturday on February 14, 2015.
The accident occurred in the evening on Highway 525 near the intersection of Coles Road.
( see obituaries below )
Jerry Keil and Timothy Keil are deeply missed.
We are sending all our love and support to the family.
Sabrina
Jerry Keil Obituary
Jerry' Keil used skills honed in FBI career to prompte book
By Carole Beers
Seattle Times staff reporter
Girard "Jerry" Keil won awards as a special-agent supervisor in the FBI's Seattle office.
He taught marksmanship and defensive tactics and later did similar work for Paccar, setting up a security plan for the firm's offices nationwide.
It seemed like an about-face when he retired in 1982 to help his wife, Joan MacDonald Keil, republish her mother Betty MacDonald's "Nancy and Plum" book about a pair of orphaned sisters.
But the task drew on skills he sharpened in the FBI: talking to a variety of people and getting them to do the right thing.
Mr. Keil died Saturday (April 22) of cancer. He was 77.
"He was meticulous, and liked to talk and be in charge," said his son Timothy Keil of Whidbey Island. "He enjoyed that discipline. He kept busy promoting the books and took it upon himself to answer every letter from every kid who enjoyed the books."
First he became Joan MacDonald Keil's adviser as she lobbied publishers to reprint the out-of-print "Nancy and Plum." When publishers rejected the reissue, Mr. Keil and his wife, whom he wed 50 years ago, printed and distributed the book themselves.
Later they saw MacDonald's "The Egg and I" book reissued.
Born in Royal Oak, Mich., he graduated from high school in Decatur, Mich. He was class president and played basketball and tennis.
He also was class president at James Milligan University in Decatur, where he earned a degree in business administration before becoming a navigator in the Army Air Forces during World War II.
He became an FBI agent based in Seattle in 1947. He also helped found the Northwest Forum business club.
From 1978 to 1982 he directed security for Paccar.
He then became vice president of Joan Keil Enterprises, his wife's book-promotion firm.
One of his recent joys was sitting on a bench in Kirkland's Marina Park and chatting with people. His family will dedicate a new bench to him and to his daughter Rebecca Keil, who died in 1998.
Surviving besides his wife and son are children Toby Keil of Thousand Oaks, Calif., and Heidi Richards of Bellevue; brothers Otto Keil of Pennsylvania and Edwin Keil of Spokane; and seven grandchildren.
Services will be at 5 p.m. Saturday at First Congregational Church, 752 108th Ave. N.E., Bellevue.
Remembrances may go to Evergreen Hospice and Health Care Foundation, 12910 Totem Lake Blvd. N.E., Suite 200, Kirkland, WA 98034.
Carole Beers' e-mail address is cbeers@seattletimes.com
Copyright (c) 2000 Seattle Times Company, All Rights Reserved.
Update: South End crash claims one, injures another
State police and South
Whidbey Fire/EMS firefighters
work at a fatal accident scene near
Coles
Road on South Whidbey Saturday night.
Alcohol a suspected factor, state police investigate survivor for vehicular homicide investigation
By JUSTIN BURNETT
South Whidbey Record
Freeland is mourning the loss of one of its own this week.
Timothy Keil, 61, was killed in a head-on collision on
South Whidbey Saturday. The accident occurred in the evening on Highway
525 near the intersection of Coles Road. Keil was pronounced dead at the
scene.
He is survived by his wife, Mary Jo, children and grandchildren.
“It’s just a terrible tragedy,” said Pastor Jim Lindus, of Trinity Lutheran Church. “We have a community that’s heartbroken.”
Keil retired about 15 months ago from a career with the
City of Bothell. A member of Trinity’s congregation, he was getting into
a new rhythm of life, spending time with family and volunteering with
the church, Lindus said.
He was especially active with His Hands Extended program,
which works to feed and cloth Seattle’s homeless twice a month. He was a
dedicated supporter and volunteer for the charity, according to Lindus.
“He was a great guy,” he said. “He had a soft and tender heart.”
“I just can’t say enough nice things about Tim,” Lindus added.
Thomas Beard, also of Freeland, was a friend of Keil’s for
about 20 years. He described him as a father, a grandfather, a friend
and, to some, a mentor. When he asked how you were doing, he really
wanted to know, Beard said.
“He was a caring, gentle soul,” he said.
The other driver in the crash was Michelle Nichols of Clinton. She was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle from the accident scene. She was in intensive care Sunday and her condition has since been downgraded from “serious” to “satisfactory,” a hospital spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday.
According to the Washington State Patrol, the accident
happened at 8:40 p.m. Nichols, 46, was southbound on Highway 525 in a
white 1988 Ford Van and had just passed Coles Road when her vehicle
collided with the guardrail on the right side of the state route. The
van then crossed the centerline and stuck a northbound vehicle, a silver
1993 Honda Accord, driven by Keil.
Keil, 61, died at the scene. His next of kin were notified by a state trooper and the Island County coroner, a press memo said.
According to the release, the cause of the crash was
crossing the centerline; alcohol is believed to have been involved, and
Nichols is under investigation for vehicular homicide, the memo said.
“At the time of the accident there was an odor of
alcohol,” said Trooper Mark Francis, spokesman for the Washington State
Patrol in a follow-up interview.
He added that police obtained a search warrant to take
blood samples to determine her blood/alcohol content level. The results
won’t be determined for several weeks, but she was arrested on suspicion
of vehicular homicide that night, he said.
Nichols is a family woman with several children, and is a
longtime bus driver for the South Whidbey School District, according to
her Facebook page.
The affected section of the highway was closed at Craw and
Maxwelton roads. An emergency landing zone was set up on the highway
and an air ambulance landed and picked up Nichols. The scene was
processed by Highway Patrol accident technicians, police said.
The closure lasted about four and half hours.
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The Great Performance of Our Failing President
WASHINGTON
— On the morning of the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing with
James Comey, the former director of the F.B.I., a number of bars here
opened early to allow political groupies to celebrate or drown their
sorrows while watching the proceedings live.
I’m
afraid that I let this experience pass me by. I had to work, and
besides, I didn’t think the hearing would do anything to change
President Trump’s behavior, or his base’s indulgence of it.
It’s
true that President Trump’s ratings are the lowest of any modern
president at this point in a first term, which has hamstrung his ability
to pass any major legislation. But he has triumphantly succeeded in
turning politics into spectacle, transforming the complicated process of
government into something more like made-for-TV drama. A lot of his
supporters care more about the fight than the results, and the sense
that the whole production is faked only adds to their enjoyment.
As
a political historian who writes mainly about the Republican Party,
I’ve often puzzled over why far-right groups during the 1950s and ’60s
had such an appetite for obvious falsehoods. Robert Welch Jr., a founder
of the John Birch Society, famously maintained that President Dwight
Eisenhower, a Republican, was “a dedicated, conscious agent of the
Communist conspiracy.” Other extremist groups charged that a committee
of University of Chicago eggheads was rewriting the Constitution to
deprive Americans of their rights to vote and hold property, and that
the United Nations was training barefoot African cannibals in Georgia
for an armed takeover of the United States. Did the people who read
those made-up stories actually believe them?
In
the 1960s, Republican Party officials and conservative leaders like
William F. Buckley Jr. were able to marginalize the John Birch Society
and related groups. Today, it’s the conservative establishment that has
been marginalized by right-wing media and President Trump’s populist
movement. Birch-style fake news stories once circulated only among small
audiences. Today, thanks to the internet, they reach millions of
Americans who make up a big chunk of the Republican Party’s base.
I
have quite a few friends who are avid consumers of Trump-supporting
alt-right “news” websites, but I have yet to find one who actually
believes in the wilder fantasies they purvey. For example, no one I know
thought there was any truth to the Pizzagate conspiracy theory
propagated by Infowars.com
(among others) that a Washington pizza parlor was the center of a child
sex ring linked to members of the Democratic Party. As one Infowars
reader I know from high school told me, “To take Pizzagate seriously,
you’d have to be mentally disturbed” — which may well have been the case
for the young man who came to the restaurant armed with an assault
rifle to “self investigate” the false claims.
Many
Trump supporters engage nonetheless in a willing suspension of
disbelief when they partake of right-wing media. They enjoy the
ridiculous exaggerations and outright lies for the outrage they provoke
in Democrats, liberals, intellectuals and pompous commentators of all
political stripes.
Populist
conservatives also appreciate fake news for conveying what they see as
underlying symbolic truths. Barack Obama is not actually a Muslim, but
those who called him one were pointing toward what they saw as his
cosmopolitanism, racial otherness and seeming discomfort with “real”
America. Democratic officials do not actually run sex rings, but for
fake-news readers they are part of the corrupt and all-powerful
government that exploits helpless citizens for fun and profit. Climate
change science is not actually a hoax concocted by China and the
scientific community, but many see it as serving the interests of
globalists from both parties who allowed the devastation of American
manufacturing and the working class.
One
of the lessons future historians may draw from the Trump presidency is
that populism and partisanship shouldn’t mix. President Trump won the
election in large part because he was one of the few candidates from
either party to address terrible problems in the left-behind parts of
the country, including the drug epidemic, declining labor force
participation rates and the rising cost of health care.
But
when he arrived in the White House, he merely added his own brand of
insult to the usual Washington partisanship. He didn’t begin to do the
work that would have been required to assemble a bipartisan coalition
around a genuine populist agenda. Instead, he agreed to make Paul Ryan’s
draconian repeal of Obamacare his top priority. That provoked Democrats
in Congress to be just as obstructionist and hostile as Republicans
were under President Obama.
Toxic
polarization means that Congress is unlikely to pass any significant
legislation on infrastructure and tax reform that once might have
attracted cross-aisle support. Mr. Trump also lacks the popularity that
allowed presidents like Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton to rally the
public behind their proposals and compel Congress to go along with them,
and he doesn’t seem to understand that their skillful use of the
reputable media was an integral part of their success.
Mr.
Trump cast himself during the election as the sole candidate able to
break through Washington gridlock and get things done. Will his failure
as a problem solver cause his supporters to abandon him?
I
doubt it. Scratch a Trump supporter, and you’re likely to find someone
deeply pessimistic about America and its future. Few believe that he
will be able to bring back the good times (however they define them)
because they’re convinced that the system is rigged: The “deep state” is
too entrenched, the demographic tide too advanced and the global elite
too powerful to allow real change. Still, they appreciate President
Trump for fighting the fight, especially when it involves going against
the wishes of his own party and the customary norms of presidential
behavior.
The
Comey hearing, then, is unlikely to change their minds. Anything short
of blatant evidence of illegality will simply play into their narrative
of the president’s battles against his diabolical enemies. They will
continue to see President Trump as the ultimate political independent,
taking on the whole world. Even if it’s an empty performance, it’s bound
to win applause.
