Keith Wayne Lewis, a 71-year-old resident of Unionville, passed away on Monday, March 8, 2021 after a two-year battle with bone marrow cancer and acute myeloid leukemia.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, March 11, 2021 at Playle & Collins Funeral Home in Unionville. Interment was in the Unionville Cemetery.
He was born on May 6, 1949 in Unionville to James and Elizabeth (Tuller) Lewis. He grew up in Lucerne and graduated from Newtown-Harris High School in 1968.
He was married on Nov. 26, 1971 to Nettie McCoy, who survives of the home.
He retired from Yellow Freight in 2011 after a 40-year trucking career and then purchased a farm and began a cow/calf and row crop operation. He finished his trucking career working for Unionville Livestock, Putnam County MFA and Tanner and Nick Michael.
He liked to work on and repair International tractors and spend time with his grandchildren.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by his children: Kimberly Hammeke and her husband, Duane, Karyn Ward and her husband, Dan, all of Blue Springs, and Daniel Lewis and his wife, Melissa of Clinton; nine grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; a brother, Jerry Lewis and his wife, Donna of Newtown; his brother-in-law, Larry McCollum of Trenton; a niece, Sharyn Garcia and her husband, Juan of Newtown; and three nephews, Jeremy Lewis of Newtown, Cody McCollum of Trenton and Darwin McCollum of Auburn, NE.
Preceding him in death were his parents; his mother- and father-in-law; his sister, Linda McCollum; and a sister-in-law and a brother-in-law.
Memorials are suggested to Hospice of Northeast Missouri or the Putnam County Historical Society and may be left with or mailed to the funeral home at 709 S. 27th St., Unionville, MO 63565.
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