Arthur Keyes, a Founder of Scripps Foundation, Is Dead

Memorial services will be held Saturday for Arthur H. Keyes, a founding director and former board member of the Scripps Memorial Foundation, who died Dec. 5 at his home. He was 90.

Keyes, who was born in Des Moines, Iowa, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1924 and entered the banking business in Des Moines.

In the mid-1950s, he and his wife, Dorothy, and son, James, left Des Moines for La Jolla, where he and his wife spent nearly four decades involved in various civic and philanthropic events.

Keyes helped found the local Meals-on-Wheels program and for over three decades served on the memorial board of St. James Episcopal Church in La Jolla.

In the early 1980s, he and his wife helped start the Partial Vision Center, and they supported the Mericos Eye Institute of Scripps Memorial Hospitals.

Survivors include his wife; a daughter-in-law, Mrs. James B. Keyes of Port Ludlow, Wash.; two grandsons, Edward and Jason, and two great-granddaughters, Alexandra and Hilary Keyes.

The Keyeses’ only son, James B. Keyes, died of leukemia in October at age 64.

Memorial services for Keyes will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday at St. James by the Sea Episcopal Church in La Jolla. The family requests that, instead of flowers, contributions be made to a favorite charity.