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Bill Keeler's parents were William and Sarah Louisa Carr, both of whom were of Cherokee descent. William was a stockman who had traveled from Bartlesville to the Texas Panhandle in 1908 to buy cattle. Sarah was then expecting her fourth child, but decided to accompany her husband. She delivered their first son in Dalhart. Only two of their children survived to adulthood: "Bill" and a sister, Blanche. Young Bill attended Bartlesville public schools. During high school and college, he spent his summers working on construction sites for Phillips Petroleum Company.<ref name="Lowe">[http://fivetribes.tripod.com/wwkeeler.html Lowe, Marjorie. “Let’s Make It Happen” W. W. Keeler and Cherokee Renewal. ''The Chronicles of Oklahoma''.] Retrieved August 28, 2013.</ref> In 1924, Blanche married [[Kenneth S. "Boots" Adams]], who would later become president of Phillips Petroleum Corporation. The couple divorced in 1945.<ref >ingham, p. 6.</ref>
Keeler was born into the Long Hair Clan of the Cherokee.<ref name="Gridley">Gridley, p. 111.</ref> He moved to [[Bartlesville, Oklahoma]] as a child and lived with his grandmother due to his mother’s ill health. She instilled into him “Indian ways” and Cherokee principles of morality. His mother eventually returned and attempted to raise him with white man principles and pushed for him to assimilate.<ref name="Gridley"/> The starkly contrasting influences from his mother and grandmother conflicted Keeler in his early life, but he ultimately successfully assimilated into white society. He began working part-time for [[Phillips Petroleum]] on various construction sites at age sixteen while still in high school, and continued during the summers while attending college. Keeler graduated from the [[University of Kansas]] with a degree in [[Chemical Engineering]] in 1930.<ref name="EOHC-WWKeeler">[http://
==Career at Phillips Petroleum Company==
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