Michelle Lynn (Goodrich) Keiser

Michelle Lynn (Goodrich) Keiser, 56, passed away at Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital in Canton at 9:06 a.m. September 6, 2022 after an extended illness.

Michelle was a 1985 graduate of West Branch High School and a former Charter One Loan Officer.

She was born May 17, 1966 in Alliance to Patricia (Close) Weingart and Garold Goodrich. Michelle is survived by her son, Brian (Lauren) McNew; sister, Brenda Lotz; mother; nephew Brandon Lotz; aunt, Gayle (Bill) Blair; stepbrothers Dean Weingart and Dwight Weingart; stepsister Charlene Menegos; special friends Jon Frances, Tina McKnight and Lynn Taylor along with numerous cousins.

Michelle was predeceased by her stepfather, Duane Weingart; father; grandfathers and grandmothers along with aunts and uncles

Cremation has taken place and there are no services.

Memorial contributions can be made to the American Liver Foundation.PO Box 299, West Orange, NJ 07052.

Paquelet-Falk Funeral Home, Inc

. in Louisville, Ohio is in charge of arrangements.

Gone From My Sight

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship, at my side,

spreads her white sails to the moving breeze and starts

for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength.

I stand and watch her until, at length, she hangs like a speck

of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.

Then, someone at my side says, “There, she is gone.”

Gone where?

Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast,

hull and spar as she was when she left my side.

And, she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.

Her diminished size is in me — not in her.

And, just at the moment when someone says, “There, she is gone,”

there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices

ready to take up the glad shout, “Here she comes!”

And that is dying…

-Van Dyke