He had an entire garage full of trophies,” Pat Keene said.Įrnie Keene’s goals of becoming a mining engineer for a large mining corporation didn’t pan out. “He built a couple of ski boats out of hand-laden mahogany and my father ended up becoming a champion water skier. Living on the coast, Ernie got into scuba diving, treasure hunting and water-skiing. Ernie Keene was a hard, disciplined worker and pushed his son, Jerry, to succeed. Ernie Keene, originally from Oklahoma, who served his country in World War II, returned to graduate as a mining engineer and geologist from the Colorado School of Mines and later moved to Southern California where he launched his own businesses, including six United Aqua shops and Keene Engineering. To understand the kind of man Jerry Keene was, one only needs to look as far back as his father. Jerry Keene was born March 14, 1934, in the middle of the Great Depression before the Second World War. His sons will continue to lead the multimillion-dollar mining equipment manufacturing operation based in Chatsworth, Calif. Though he never officially retired, Keene had handed over much of the third-generation, family-run business to his sons, Mark and Pat, in recent years.
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