Keith L. McNeil, 93

Keith LaVern McNeil, 93, was born to Harold and Beatrice (Sackett) McNeil in Noonan, North Dakota, March 30, 1931. The family settled in Kalispell when Keith was a junior in high school.

Keith graduated from Multnomah School of the Bible in 1953 and continued his education at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington, earning a B.A. in English. 

He was ordained in the Evangelical Free Church in 1967. His first two churches were in Erskine and Vauxhall, Alberta, Canada. He later served a three-point parish of Evangelical Free Churches in the Cooperstown, North Dakota, area for nine years.  

In 1981, Keith received a call to Corvallis Community Church in Montana. In 1997, Keith moved back to Kalispell and joined the pastoral staff at Central Bible Church.  

He is survived by his wife, Marie and their children, Steve (Wendy), Portland, Oregon; Debbie (Brett Cowman) Lacey, Washington; John, Seattle, Washington; four grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and his sisters, Carol Williams, Kalispell; and Donna McNeil (Clay DeForge) Springfield, Oregon.