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LASTING CONTRIBUTIONS<br />
children, attracted to him through a mutual<br />
love of dancing at Fairyland Ballroom. The<br />
family moved to Lost Nation and Keitel<br />
lived there for six years — the only time<br />
Keitel lived away from his beloved farm<br />
south of DeWitt.<br />
When he graduated from high school,<br />
Keitel moved to a trailer on the farm while<br />
the family living there finished raising their<br />
15 children. When that family moved to<br />
town, Keitel moved back into the farmhouse<br />
and began building his farming<br />
legacy.<br />
A mutual friend introduced Terri (Paul’s<br />
future wife) to Keitel with the words,<br />
“Meet the nicest girl in here.”<br />
He was refereeing basketball in Muscatine,<br />
where Terri grew up. Keitel liked to<br />
say, “Terri chose me.”<br />
After years of Terri’s grandmother praying<br />
that she would meet a nice boy, they<br />
met in January, were engaged in April, and<br />
married in September 1992.<br />
Terri, who was born in New York, said,<br />
“I should have known what I was in for<br />
when his first gift to me was a pair of black<br />
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