Maggie Keegan

Monday, March 28, 2022

Maggie Keegan, 88, beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and aunt, entered her eternal home in heaven on Thursday, March 24, 2022.

For the past 13 years, she lived at Sugar Grove Senior Living in Plainfield, where she was loved and cared for by many.

Maggie was born in Indian Creek, Ky., on April 1, 1933 to Fred and Nannie (Hoskins) Helton.

She attended Corbin High School in Corbin, Ky. In 1950, she moved to Detroit, where she met her husband, Walter James Keegan. They married on April 9, 1951. Together they had one daughter.

Maggie was a stay-at-home mom for 12 years before entering the workforce. She was her daughter’s room mother every year and served on the PTA. She was an expert seamstress, always sewing the dance and cheer team’s costumes and bridesmaid’s dresses. The afghans she crocheted for many in her family are cherished by those who received them.

She retired from Boehringer Manheim in Indianapolis in 1985 and spent many happy years together with Walter at their home at Hammonds Camp on Lake Cumberland in Kentucky near Corbin. They fished, hunted, gardened and gathered, finding thousands of morel mushrooms every year.

Later in life after Walter passed away, she lived in Cloverdale and was the perfect grandma. When the grandchildren were grown, she moved to Plainfield to be near the recreation center because of her love for water aerobics and the friends she made there.

Maggie loved everyone and wanted them to feel special. Many of her volunteer activities were spent serving on welcoming committees. She was a member of Cloverdale United Methodist Church.

She was preceded in death by her husband; parents; and siblings Coy Helton, Willis Helton, Foist Helton, Mildred Nash, Naomi Howell, Paul Helton and Rita Fishback; and a granddaughter, Chelsie Clute.

She is survived by her daughter, Linda Clute (Bruce); grandchildren Brandon Boyewsky, Ashley Clute and Adam Clute; great-grandchildren Chelsea Gellenbeck, Noah, Sydney, Eli and Ben Boyewsky and Carter Russell; siblings James Helton and Frances Copas; and generations of nieces and nephews.

Services will be held 1 p.m. on Tuesday, March 29, 2022, at Greencastle Presbyterian Church with Pastor Wes Kendall officiating. Burial will follow in Lincoln Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be held from 11 a.m. until time of service on Tuesday.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her name to Greencastle Presbyterian Church or other favorite charity.