Mary Lou Keyser, 74, of Indianola, Iowa, died suddenly Sunday, January 22, at home. Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at Overton Funeral Home in Indianola with family present from 6 to 8 p.m. Services will be 10:30 a.m., Thursday, January 26 at Farmers Chapel. Burial of cremains will be at a later date at Moore Cemetery, Nevada, Missouri. Mary Lou McGregor was born March 24, 1937, to William Oran and Iona Harrell McGregor in Detroit, Michigan, and graduated from Denby High School in Detroit, Baptist Missionary Training School in Chicago, and Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City. In 1962 Mary Lou married Dr. H. M. Keyser at Pottsville, Pennsylvania. The couple made their home in Pine Grove, Pennsylvania, and later in Nevada, Missouri, and raised three children. Mary Lou worked as a secretary and in workforce development, farmed, was a published writer, and was ordained to ministry in the United Methodist Church and pastored several churches in northwest and southwest Missouri. She retired to Indianola and there served as organist at Farmers Chapel and was a member of PEO. Mary Lou is survived by her brothers Arvin McGregor and Fred (Carol) McGregor and sister Sally Grammer, her children, Thomas (Marcia) Keyser of Des Moines, Iowa, Linda (Richard) Rickman of Duncan, Oklahoma, and Todd (Sarah) Keyser of Indianola, and grandchildren Paul and Luke Keyser, Ellen and William Keyser, Jacob, Zachary, and Claire Rickman. She was preceded in death by her husband Max, her parents, her brother Ferman McGregor and an infant brother, and a granddaughter Regan Rickman. Memorial contributions may be made to Farmers Chapel United Methodist Church.