Violet was employed by Carlisle Container Co. for many years and she also helped her late husband with the family farm and also did housecleaning for several area families. Violet enjoyed gardening and fishing.

She is survived by one brother, Holbert Keck and three sisters; Helen Wilson, Martha Orris and Annie Richwine, all of Carlisle and several nieces and nephews. Violet was preceded in death by brothers; Oron, Paul and Grant Keck and one sister, Alice Lebo.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, December 1, 2011, in the Ewing Brothers Funeral Home, 630 S. Hanover St., Carlisle. Burial will be in Westminster Memorial Gardens, Carlisle. Viewing will be on Thursday from 9:30 a.m. until time of service.