Patrick Henry Darcy Keats, 67, of Front Royal, Virginia passed away on Friday, July 5, 2019 at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. Virginia.

A funeral service will be held on Friday, July 19, 2019 at 11 AM at Christendom College Christ the King Chapel with Father Laurence A. Kutz officiating. Burial will follow in Good Hope Cemetery.

Dr. Keats was born on September 15, 1951 in Washington, DC to the late Paul Anthony and Lillian Mork Keats. He was also preceded in death by his brother, John Keats.

He was currently the English Literature Professor at Christendom College holding the post since 1992. Before coming to Front Royal he was the Vice Principal at Westbridge High School in Boston, Massachusetts, an English Teacher with the Heights in Washington, DC, and English Professor at the University of Tennessee and Assistant Professor with Catholic University of America.

He attended school at Blessed Sacrament and St. John’s College High School both in Washington, DC; Columbia University in New York and Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.

Survivors include his wife of twelve years, Lily Keats of Front Royal; son, Robert Darcy “Robbie” Keatsof Front Royal; daughter, Lucy Isabelle Keats of Front Royal; brother, Anthony Paul Keats of Montgomery, Maryland; nephews, Paul, John Hudson and Brendan Keats; niece, Whitney Keats of Arizona and Brother-in-law, Robert Haro of Lima, Peru.

The family will receive friends on Thursday, July 18, 2019 from 6 to 9 PM at Christendom College.