Per Barry Ergang - Keith had not been well for quite a while, suffering from a heart ailment and Parkinson's Disease. He had been in hospice at the Masonic Village in Elizabethtown, PA. John reported that Keith passed "peacefully and quickly." He was unable to get there before it happened, but took their dog Kelly with him, and she jumped "onto the bed and laid down beside Keith and put her head on his chest" and remained that way until the people from the funeral home arrived. "No one can ever know how much peace and strength that act of love has given me," John wrote. "Thank God for that moment in time."