Reda June Keller

Reda began her journey in Startup, Washington. She was the fourth of seven children born to Hugh D. and Dora I. Daniels. After a few years, the family moved to Sultan, Washington where Reda attended school. She loved playing sports, and lettering during her high school years. Upon graduating High School in 1944, she moved to Everett, Washington where she was employed as a Riveter for Boeing building B-17 Flying Fortresses.

Following the end of WWII, Reda, like many women of that time, was thanked for serving her country and shown the exit door when the troops came home. She subsequently moved to Seattle where she worked and enjoyed ballroom dancing, earning first place trophies for Samba, Swing, and Foxtrot.

Reda married Charles V. Buhl on November 15, 1952, and the couple moved to Vancouver, B.C. the following year. Her sons, Robert Buhl and Thomas Buhl were born shortly thereafter. In 1959 the family moved to Ellensburg, Washington, where they owned and operated the Lighthouse Motel for twenty-one years. Reda loved bowling and as with her other sports, excelled, winning numerous trophies. She was inducted into the Eastern Washington Bowling Association Hall of Fame.

Reda and Charles sold the motel on Friday, May 16, 1980, and drove to Leavenworth for a weekend celebration. That weekend turned into a week when Mount St. Helens erupted Sunday, May 18th, rendering the highways to Ellensburg impassable. The couple moved to Shelton, Washington soon after, where Reda lived until her death.

Five years after Charles died in 2010, Reda found love again and married Bill Keller on June 11, 2015. They were blessed with five loving years until Bill's passing in January 2020.

Reda was famous for her many years working and volunteering, "I do it to help old people" at Nifty Thrifty in Shelton. She was most famous for the thousands of hugs she gave freely and lovingly. She was baptized into Christ in Vancouver, B.C., and was a member of the Church of Christ in Ellensburg and Shelton.

Reda was preceded in death by her husbands Charles Buhl and Bill Keller and granddaughter Jennifer Buhl. She is survived by her sons Robert (Laurie) and Thomas Buhl, granddaughter Amber Herrick (Andrew) and great-grandsons Parker and Wyatt Herrick, sister Ena (Storm) Totten, daughter Connie Matheson and sons Jim (Leah) and Stan (Bev) Keller, and numerous nieces, nephews, grand and great-grandchildren.