I was just eager to search for you on the Internet and discovered that Keith passed on last year. My condolences to you and your entire family.
To refresh your memory, your family accommodated me in 1984 during the Council of International Programs (CIP) in Iowa. I still have happy memories of those days that I lived in your home. I remember you as a happy couple. May you draw strength from your life and happiness with Keith.
My condolences to the family of Dr Thayer. He was indeed one of my prosthodontic heroes!! As a dental student he challenged me but in a kind and respectful way. Later on when I was a faculty member in the Prosthodontics Dept I treated a patient who had received a full mouth rehabilitation from Dr. Thayer some 25 years prior. The dental work was incredible and was still holding up after all that time! What a remarkable clinician! Again my condolences to his family. Dr Thayer was a great clinician and educator and a real credit to the specialty of Prosthodontics.
Nancy, my sympathy to you. As long as we are married it is never long enough. I was looking for a recipe and here was one of yours from when you were District President. I first remember you from Clear Lake and the MYF camp there. Time has really gone by. I am so sorry you lost Keith at holiday time but guess there is no good time when it is one's time to go. My prayers have gone up for you as I know you can use them right now. Much love and peace I wish for you!
Nancy and family, we are so sorry for your loss. We will miss our annual brunch with you and Keith. John is so proud of his cousin, Keith’s accomplishments in life.
It was my pleasure to have known and worked with Dr. Thayer while I was on faculty from 1983 to 1989. He was always a kind person to students and patients and had a wonderful sense of humor. I had the priviledge to have helped him out during one IDA annual meeting in Des Moines when he developed a severe tooth ache and I took him to my office and did a root canal for him! I think that allowed him to finish the meeting in comfort!! My sincere condolences to his wife and family. He was a great man.
I send my deepest sympathy to Nancy and family in their great loss. I first met Keith in the late 1960's when he and his other dental colleagues proposed a dental faculty practice plan. The adoption of this plan by the board of regents was a major factor in the great advances made by the college of dentistry. In addition to pioneering the dental service plan, Keith was an extraordinary leader in prosthodontics. His warm personality made him an admired teacher and dental college leader. Sadly, Willard Sandy Boyd
Our Prosthodontics family all send you our deepest sympathies. Dr. Thayer was a gentleman and a scholar, such a role model for us all. I loved his stories of world travels and the interesting people he helped. Our hearts are with you.
Keith was truly one of a kind. Keith was no longer Department Head when I joined the faculty in 1982, but I considered him a mentor, colleague and friend. A true gentleman and an incredibly giving person. He will be missed. My thoughts and prayers are with Nancy and his family.
I am so sorry to learn of your loss. Condolences to you from the Young family. I have many happy memories from childhood with my friend Jim who left you too soon. One of them was Dr. Thayer taking us in an airplane ride (my first time ever....wow!) and we flew over our farm near North Liberty. I also recall Dr. Thayer carved walnut Grandfather clocks. Many wonderful memories of a wonderful man and father. He will be missed.
