Barbra LaDoria Perry Keyes passed away on June 17, 2023. She is survived by her son Adam Booker and brother Don Perry. Initially, her physician believed she was diabetic, but soon realized that she had pancreatic cancer. Even with this cancer, she kept up with a farm that included alpacas, sheep, dogs, cats, and a large garden. Barbra was voted Most Intellectual by her classmates. It is kind of funny that her name was misspelled in that part of the yearbook. While she did cross the extra ‘a’ out with prejudice, she made up for it with many others. Her intensity was consistent from childhood to a few weeks before passing. She would make bags and bring them to the grocery store in the 1980s when it was quite unheard of. She would pick up trash on the roads by her house in Oak Ridge. She rescued countless cats, alpacas, and sheep. She was also an avid vegetarian. Before becoming a full-time farmer, Barbra was a computer programmer at Oak Ridge National Laboratories. It is not clear what she worked on, but she had an office next to a particle collider that smashed hydrogen ions together to delve deeper into the elemental nature of the universe. She married David Keyes in 1988 and quit ORNL in 1997. From 1988 to 1997, she, David, and often Adam would work on the farm on weekends. They lived in a house in Oak Ridge and an Airstream on the farm on weekends. A farmhouse was completed in 1997. At its pinnacle, the farm was home to almost 100 sheep. Barbra Keyes will also be remembered as the founder of the women’s running race, Run for the Rose, and for contributing to the fiber community in East Tennessee.