Take a walk with me if you will...

This post is for my Grandpa Keith. As you read this post and look at the pictures I hope to take you on a little journey through my Grandpa Keiths life. He was an incredible man, and did so many things and I just want to share a little bit of that with you all.

Keith "Bradley" Schwartz
Keith was born July 28th, 1922 in Payson Utah and passed away June 19th, 2010.
He grew up in Benjamin Utah. One day when he was 18 he was out working on the farm and made a decision that would change his life. He decided that farm life was not what he wanted to do, and he thought to himself that he should move to California. So he drove down with his cousin and they made it to San Bernardino valley and that is where he met my Grandma Doris Ingold working at the Morrow Aircraft Company. My Grandpa then shipped off to Germany for WWII and served over in Europe for 2 years. He fought in many big battles. He has told me so many stories about the war. So many interesting things about his life. He actually has a real Nazi flag. He came across it and thought it might come in handy. The whole time he was over seas him and my grandma wrote letters to each other which we still have. I have read many of them and thought it was so cute how he always started his letters saying how much he loved my grandma and how much he missed her, and then he would end the letter "love your Keithie boy". So cute.

He returned home from the war and they got married on my Grandmas parents wedding anniversary, and then were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple a couple years later (my grandma was not a member of the church at the time they met and dated).

My Grandpa graduated from The College of Mortuary Science and after graduating became the owner for 40 years of the Ingold Chapel (a Mortuary home). That itself brought many interesting stories.

My Grandpa has been in Bishoprics and been a Bishop. He also served as a High councelor and a Stake mission leader. My grandpa always lent his services when ever he could. He was always there to help ward members or the community. Him and my Grandma were both very active members in the church and were involved in so many events in the community. My grandpa not only enjoyed building modeling planes but he also built planes. He LOVED to fly. Even in his last months we talked about getting his pilots license again. He laughed alot, and always loved to play with and entertain the grandchildren. He would whistle (he was an amazing whistler) roll his eyes, rub his belly and pat his head for us. On Halloween we would always meet up at their house after trick-or-treating and he would steal our cracker jack box that we always got from a neighbor and tell us he was making sure it was safe to eat.

My grandpa and grandma had 1 daughter and 2 sons. They have 14 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren. My grandpa has one sibling still alive, his youngest brother Glade.

Three years ago my Grandpa had a stroke that put him in bed. he stayed string for 3 years, and the last 3-4 months of his life were the hardest to see. I am SO grateful that we had the chance to be so close to my grandpa and grandma the last year and a half. We had good warnignof my grandpa passing on. He was in so much pain and we all knew it was time for him to go. I will miss his stories and laughter so much. We had the viewing on Wednesday June 23, and the funeral was on Thursday June 24th. We all cried together, and laughed about the good times together. I will miss him so much. I Love you Grandpa Keith.

Me with my Grandma Dodie at the viewing
My Grandma playing the piano at the funeral

Kissing her sweetheart goodbye!

Holding his hand

All of the Grandsons carrying him out

At the Lindon cemetary

The whole family

My Dad and Uncle folding the flag

And presenting it to my Grandma

All the carnations from the Grandsons

My beautiful Grandma

My Uncle Larry, Aunt Elaine and my Dad Randy with their Mother

From here on down are pictures of my grandpas life. I know there are a ton, but I just couldnt decide.

My Grandma, me and Grandpa

My Grandpa holding me, and Cari standing next to him.

Me once again with my Grandparents

Julie and I with Grandpa. He always let us do silly things with him.

One thing that my Grandpa loved, and i mean LOVED was icecream. He had it every night for as long as we all can remember.

TYler with my Grandparents at Halloween.

My Grandpa blowing snow at our old house in Lindon.

My Grandparents kissing.

Their wedding day!

My Grandpa with his brothers, in order from left to right is Jr., Glade and Keith

My Grandpa over in Europe during the war

My Grandpa as a baby

Here he is with one of his airplanes.

Driving a boat. I love this picture for some reason.

My grandparents

Their first date

another one of him with one of his planes. Whenever we would be sitting by my Grandpa and we would hear a plane fly over he could tell us what kind of engine was in that plane.

Grandpa with his younger brother Junior

another of Keith and Junior

My Grandpa after Highschool (I think)

On the beach while dating

such a cute photo

During the war(there are sooooo many pics that he has from the war of him in so many amazing places)

another war picture

Him and a fellow solider

I could have posted so many more pictures but I know this post is extremly long as it is. I hope you all got a good look into an amazing mans life.

**Just a note for those of you who have been waiting patiently, the boys birthday post will be coming soon, i promise. Life has just been crazy!**