Dr. Keiter of Liturgical Commission Dies
Diocesan Press Service. August 31, 1972 [72124]
PORTLAND, Ore. -- The Rev. Louis Bowes Keiter, D. D., a member of the Standing Liturgical Commission of the Episcopal Church since 1961 and chairman of the Commission's drafting committee, died here August 8. He was 62.
The burial office and requiem was conducted at All Saints' Church, Portland, on August 11 by the Rt. Rev. James W. F. Carman, Bishop of Oregon, and the Rt. Rev. Hal R. Gross, Suffragan Bishop of Oregon. Celebrant at the requiem was the Rev. Massey H. Shepherd, Jr., vice-chairman of the Standing Liturgical Commission.
At the time of his retirement in June of this year, Dr. Keiter was an associate professor of New Testament at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, Calif., a position he had held since 1967. He was previously a lecturer in Greek New Testament and Moral Theology at CDSP during 1964-65.
Dr. Keiter was ordained to the priesthood in 1926 by the late Rt. Rev. Benjamin D. Dagwell, then Bishop of Oregon. He began his ministry as vicar of St. John's, Milwaukee, and in 1937 became vicar of All Saints' Church in Portland, serving until 1945, at which time the Church became a parish, and Dr. Keiter its first rector until 1966.
In the Diocese of Oregon, Dr. Keiter served on the Diocesan Council, the Standing Committee, as chairman of the Department of Christian Education, as a member of the Diocesan Board of Trustees and the Board of Trustees of St. Helen's Hall, as well as an examining chaplain.
He was a deputy to General Convention on seven occasions, and attended the Anglican Congress in Toronto in 1962 as a deputy.
He is survived by his wife, Charlotte Kingman Keiter, of Longview, Wash., and five children: Walter, Margaret, Paul, John and Hobart.