Kay Elaine Keys entered this world into her parents' loving and welcoming embrace in December 1947 in San Angelo, Texas, and departed this earthly realm from Austin, Texas to return to her parents' loving and welcoming embrace, on January 13, 2022 after suffering a stroke on New Year's Day.
Her father, Albert Lee Keys, owned a cotton farm in Wall, while her mother, Frances Mulkey Keys, was an elementary school teacher in Wall.