KEITH

KEITH BAUER
Keith Bauer 6/26/1958 ~ 8/28/2010 Our loving husband, father, brother, and friend, passed away August 28, 2010 at a local hospital due to health complications. Born June 26, 1958 in Reno, Nevada the son to Roy Sylvester and Doris Jean Thomas Bauer. He married Gaylene Marie Schmardebeck on Oct 12, 1996 in the Manti, Utah LDS Temple. He was raised in Fernley, NV, but always considered Kansas home. He attended Ricks College, BYU, Pittsburg State with a bachelors degree in Nursing. He served an LDS Mission to Louisiana Shreveport and later served in the Mississippi Jackson Mission. He enjoyed traveling, temple work, family history, but his most favorite hobby was that of "Papa" to Bud, his Princess and Boo. Survived by: wife, niece/daughter: Kassie Openshaw-Rodriguez (RJ) Salt Lake, sisters: Tamie Cline (Bill) Umatilla, OR, Debbie (Oliver) Stone, Libby, MT, Alicia Bauer-Lawson, Savonburg, KS, brother: Robert Bauer, Iola, KS, three grandchildren: Austin, Ashlynne, and Andrew Rodriguez. Preceded in death by: father, mother, sisters: Sherrie Bauer and Amber Bauer and father-in-law, Gail Schmardebeck. Funeral services will be held on Thursday September 2, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. at the Grandview 2nd LDS Ward Chapel, 2930 S. 2000 East. Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday evening from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Holbrook Mortuary, 3251 S. 2300 East, and at the church on Thursday morning from 9:30 a.m. to 10:40 a.m. prior to the services. Interment: Elysian Burial Gardens. Online tributes and memories may be sent to the family at www.holbrookmortuary.com

CONGRATS TO ANDREW AND TIERNEY

Meet the newest member of our extended family. Tierney Johanson Syndergaard. Congratulation to both of you. Andrew is our last cousin, on either side of the family to get married. He has searched for a long time for this girl and she seems to fit the bill with him. He is quite the outdoors man: hikes, repels, and more and she can keep up with him. Good for you Andy a.k.a. Cosmo.



The day was spent at the Salt Lake Temple, Gardner Village at the Gathering Place, and Liberty Park for a reception. The day was gorgeous, a little windy and the park was great for the kids, because there are a lot of them and they had some place to run, play, chase, play Red Rover and just have a great time, while the rest of us caught up with each other and enjoyed the outdoors. Welcome to our loud, silly, crazy (in a good way) family!

JANESSA IS FIVE

This little gal turned 5 today. She is such a fUnny little girl. She has a smile as wide as the Mississippi River, she has a little bit of a raspy smoker's voice and she is full of energy.
It is hard to believe that she turned five today. I remember like it was just a few weeks ago that she was born into this world into a room full of people (noisy people to boot) and she was one of the skinniest, blondest babies I had ever seen!

Her mom threw a birthday party for her tonight, complete with cake and ice cream (thanks Trevor for sharing parts of your cake with me). Austin and Ashlynne had a blast running around the back yard with Christopher, Janessa and Gage (the dog).
Then it was time to go home and as I stepped out the back door and onto stone steps similar to this (except the steps were stone or a stone facade, instead of brick, my foot apparently missed one of those three steps going down and I fell directly into....








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The dog pail, filled with water, down my hand went into the pail, my purse on the ground, then the pail tips over from my weightiness and fills my purse full of water.
Karyn, Aubrey and Dad Powell are trying to help me out by taking things out of my purse, mostly about 20 pounds of water, wiping them off, deciding what can be salvaged and what needs to be thrown away.

Oh, did I mention that Mom Powell and Aubrey were in the kitchen trying to assist me "from" falling by attempting to catch me while sitting about 10 feet away at the kitchen table. And the pail full of water just happened to be the dog's water pail. Yep, I went straight into it.

I laughed about it later and assured them I wasn't going to bring a law suit against them.
Now that I am home, all of the contents of my purse are lain out on the futon to dry.

So Janessa, I hope you had a great birthday, it will certainly be one I remember for awhile and I probably will not be showing my corpulent, weighty-self around the Powell's home for some time, due to a bruised ego and a bruised hand and hip!