Jacqueline Keesler

Funeral services for Jacqueline Keesler, a 78-year-old Buffalo resident who passed away February 14th at the Billings Clinic, will be held Friday, March 3, at the Harness Funeral Home Chapel in Buffalo, Wyoming with Father Phil Wagner officiating.  A private family interment will take place at a later date. Donations in Mrs. Keesler’s memory may be made to the St. Francis Animal Shelter at 109 Flatiron Drive in Buffalo, Wyoming 82834.  Online condolences may be made at www.harnessfuneral.com

Jacqueline Keesler was born on April 12, 1944, in Peekskill, New York to Thaddeus and Bertha Stachurski.  She grew up and went to school in Peekskill and graduated from Peekskill High School in 1961. After high school, she took a job with Endline Optics.  She was married on May 11, 1963, in Peekskill to George Keesler and they made their home in Cortlandt, New York for several years where she was a homemaker and Mr. Keesler worked for the Parks Department.  George took early retirement and in 1981 he and Jackie moved to Cody, Wyoming where Jacqueline was the head of the Shoshone Recreation Swim Division and an aide for Cody High School in the audio/visual department.  She retired in 1990 and they later moved to Powell, Wyoming. George passed away on December 25, 2003. Jackie and her companion Henry Martin lived in Burlington and Meeteetse, Wyoming before moving to Buffalo, Wyoming in October of 2020 where she and Henry lived until her death.

Jackie enjoyed riding horses, hunting, fishing, hiking with her dog Kova and wintering at Seawinds RV Park in Riviera, Texas. She is survived by one daughter Erica Walker and her husband Matt of Rapid City, South Dakota; her longtime companion Henry Martin of Buffalo; one sister Johanna Holmes and her husband Bruce of Meeteetse, Wyoming: and three grandsons, Zared, Tate, Treyton Walker.  She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband George and one brother Thaddeus Stachurski.