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- BIOGRAPHY:
1. Per 13 Dec 2001 email: "If you don't know I feel much closer to the Petersen side of my parents than the Shupe by a long ways. I do know since most of the Shupes are Mormons and have done a great deal of genealogy... My dad's youngest brother Clarence Shupe was very high in the Mormon church. I believe he was one of the if this it the correct wording 12 apostles or deacans under the president of the church. He lived to be 98 and his wife 100 years old and I went out to Utah for their 75th anniversary. My uncle told me because there are about six different spellings of the name Shupe they think they immgrated from Holland. They first settled in Penn. and theen to Virginia and then joined the Mormon church and traveled to Utah."
2. Per 16 Dec 2001 email: "I am sorry to say my father never put a step into a Mormon church as long as I knew him. I never saw him read from a bible or talk to me about religion. My mother told him that even though she was an Episcopalian, she would go to the Mormon church as a family but she would not become a member. So she tried! So I went almost every Sunday to the Episcopal Church even when she didn't go. I was an alter boy and got my God and Country award there when I was a boy scout. I was baptized around 12 years old with my sister and cousin La Rae is my godmother. And a very special one! My father was never told about it because my mother felt he would think she was pushing me and my sister to her church. I believe my father believed in God because he would watch Billy Graham when he was on television, but other than that I have no clue what his beliefs were, yet his youngest brother, Clarence was so high up in the Mormon church. My father was not a very good role model for me in most ways. But I could go on that topic for hours."
DEATH:
1. Keith's obituary:
"Keith Richard Shupe was born in Ogden, Utah, October 3, 1940. Son of Thelma Alberta (1906-1989) and Heber “Vic” Shupe (1897-1979), he was a middle brother to Warner L. Hansen, (1929-2003), and sister Carole P. Nixon. He attended and graduated from Ogden High School. After graduating from Weber State and the University of Utah with a degree in Journalism with aspirations for sportscasting, he was recruited by Hallmark Cards in Kansas City, MO as a lettering artist where he began his career in graphic design. This is also where he fell in love with “Sally” H. B.; the two married May 8, 1966, in Champaign, IL. Together, with her support he went on to graduate from Art Center College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, CA.
He had a long and successful career as a Design Director with firms that created corporate identity branding and packaging which touched the lives and generations of many. Well-known brands included Marriott International hotels and FujiFilm. He worked on national packaging for Dove Bar ice cream, Heath candy bars, and Taco Bell. But the most beloved design by far would be his Andes chocolate mints packaging. Much of his work had great commercial exposure and it was a delight to see his work in a spot while watching the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. A couple of weeks before he died, Keith’s work from over 30 years ago popped up as an obscure gag prop in Marvel Cinematic Universe’s “Loki” in the form of a Boku adult juice box.
Keith’s pride and joy was being a loving husband and father, raising a son, Geoff, and daughter, Kelly in Glen Ellyn, IL. He always found time between work, family, and his personal activities though often it meant bringing work home to the basement artist studio / laundry room. Keith was at times a shy person who was very driven. He loved to jog, garden, ride his bike, play tennis, go swimming, fire up the grill, and do photography. When he watched sports he could be heard shouting and cheering from two houses away. Keith would drink coffee and read the paper, keep the multiple clocks in the house wound and ticking, and make sure the bird feeders were well-stocked for the birds and squirrels. He also lived for family vacations and time spent with good friends.
In 2015 he moved to Seattle and was diagnosed in 2017 with prostate cancer. While living in Assisted Living his cancer metastasized and spread to his lymph nodes and bones. Just this May while feeling “fine”, he chose a natural death over the comfortless side effects of chemotherapy to cherish his short remaining time with those close to him. His health declined quickly in June and he died Wednesday morning on July 7, 2021.
Surviving family includes his son, daughter, ex-wife, sister, and several loved members of the extended family. Keith was baptized by The Church of the Good Shepherd in Ogden, UT March 15, 1953, and later worshipped at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Seattle, WA who performed last rites. Keith was well-admired and loved, he will be fondly remembered and missed."
A donor to the University of Washington School of Medicine’s Willed Body Program, Keith chose to aid research and education with the purpose of ebbing human suffering. His final resting place will be in Utah alongside his family who preceded him.
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
1940 - 2021 (80 years)
