~ IN MEMORY ~
USAF, NWA/DL Capt. Lewis Kieffer
May 20, 1957 ~ October 7, 2026
Lewis “Lew” Eugene Kieffer joined Northwest
Airlines 01-23-1987 and retired with Delta Air Lines was based Minneapolis. Lew is survived by his wife Sue, and by his
children and grandchildren. Services are
set for October 14th in Hastings, Minnesota…..visitation/Rosary the
evening prior….please see obituary below for arrangements.
PCN memorial site
https://www.legacy.com/person/lewis-eugene-kieffer-62622406
Lewis Kieffer Obituary
Obituary published Honsa Family Funeral Home :
https://www.honsafamilyfuneral.com/
Beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend.
Lewis, age 69, passed away on October 7, 2026. He was born in Hastings,
Minnesota, the fourth of Edna and Charles Kieffer's five children.
He is survived by his wife of 46 years, Sue, his six children Ryan (Anne), Drew
(McKenzie), Charlie (Helen), Gennie, Catherine, and Teresa, and 14
grandchildren Mary, Marta, Blaise, Zelie, Charlie, Rouen, Finn, Enna, Eleanor,
Theodore, Caroline, Charlotte, Maria, and Emma, and his brothers Ray (Sue) and
Bill (Kymi), and sisters Mary Lou Tittensor and Mickey (Ted) Feyder.
Visitation: 4-7pm on October 13th with
a Rosary at 6:30 at Honsa Funeral Home, 2460 East County Road E, White Bear Lake,
MN.
Funeral mass: 10am on October 14th at
St. Anne's Chapel, 2445 East County Road E, White Bear Lake,
MN. Burial to follow mass,
at St. Boniface Cemetery, Hastings, MN
Luncheon: To follow burial at GrandStay
Hotel & Suites Hastings
Lew was a pilot for 40 years, loved spending time with family, hunting, playing
hockey, and helping others. He started
his flying career in the Air Force flying
C-141s before moving back to Minnesota and flying for Northwest Airlines and
Delta Airlines, accumulating 22,000 flying hours over his career. Lew was happy
to volunteer his time and handyman skills at St. Anne's Chapel, which he and
Sue attended for 38 years. Since 1996, he has loved hosting family and friends
at the hunting cabin up north. He spent countless hours preparing it for
everyone's enjoyment. He especially loved bow hunting, turkey hunting, and
protecting the cabin from porcupines. He also enjoyed shooting carp in the
backwaters of the Mississippi near Hastings,
Minnesota, where he grew up hunting and fishing with his dad and
brothers. In April of 2023, he and Sue moved to a lake home where he could take
Sue water skiing every day. He also enjoyed pulling kids, grandkids, and
friends tubing, water skiing, and wakeboarding. If he wasn't driving the boat,
he was kept busy baiting fishing hooks for grandchildren and their friends. In
the winter, he meticulously created a huge rink on the lake. He was always
happy watching his children play sports or joining them in friendly hockey and
volleyball games. In his spare time, he reluctantly traveled wherever his
daughters and wife could convince him to go.
He loved to help his children, whether it was moving to another house or
apartment, fixing a leaky dishwasher or a broken car, fencing a garden,
building a chicken coop, putting up a backyard hockey rink, or replacing a
mailbox. We'll always have reminders of his love for us.
He lived his life in the service of others, always striving to emulate St.
Joseph. He will be missed by all. Memorials
preferred to: St. Anne's Academy https://saawbl.org/support-us#kpg_516967
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