Audrey McKeague

Audrey Estelle Olson McKeague, 82, died at home in Greenbrae, California on March 1, 2022, due to complications of a rare Progressive Supranuclear Palsy disease.

Audrey grew up an only child in Langdon, ND, to Ernest Lawrence Olson, and Ida Suderlund. She graduated from the Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing, Grand Forks, ND as a registered nurse specializing in labor and delivery. There she met the love of her life, Richard McKeague, from Honolulu, Hi, and they both moved to Boston in 1960. They returned to Langdon to get married in 1961. While a charge nurse in 1963, at the Boston Beth Israel Hospital in labor and delivery, her only son Brad was born. With her husband’s transfer in 1964, Audrey moved from Boston to Honolulu to work at the Castle Memorial Hospital in Kailua Oahu. While there, she had an occasion to deliver eight babies in one eight hour shift in one crowded delivery room; quite a feat.

An accomplished pianist all her life, she then worked for Sherman Clay and Steinway Pianos when her husband was transferred to San Francisco in 1968. For the next 36 years she distinguished herself as the top President’s Club Sales Person. Also during this period, she represented Rotary Club #2, in charge of helping families from the San Francisco Salvation Army’s Harbor House return to society. She provided Sherman Clay pianos and played at meetings for this second oldest international Rotary Club.

Because of continuing COVID-19 concerns, no funeral services are planned at this time.

She is survived by a wonderful circle of loving friends and family, husband Richard, son Bradley Paul McKeague (Brad), daughterin-law Krista McKeague, grandsons Austin Wilson, and Ethan McKeague, 1st cousins Patricia Pearson of Woodside, CA, Penelope Leibler (Penny), of Tacoma, Washington, and niece Coral Higby, of Castle Rock,Colorado.