Donald "Don" Kesinger

Donald Allan Kesinger, 73, of Manhattan, passed away Friday, March 23rd, at the Mercy Regional Health Center. Don was born in White Hall, Illinois on June 17, 1938, the son of the late Velma (Hayes) and Merrill Kesinger. He was united in marriage to Carolyn Beth Naylor on Nov. 16, 1996 in Amarillo, Texas and she survives of the home. He was a pharmaceutical representative for Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company, Roerig Division retiring in 1998. Don attended and graduated from KSU in 1961 with a bachelors degree in Feed Technology. While attending KSU he was a member of the golf team from 1956 to 1960 and was still very active in playing golf. He was also an alumni of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. Don was an avid supporter of KSU athletics, the Ahearn Scholarship fund, a member of the KSU Presidents Club, a member of the Friends of International Programs Board, and the Friends of the Beach Museum of Art at KSU. Don served in the US Army between 1961 and 1963, and was a member of the American Legion in Manhattan. Don and his wife Beth are members of the First United Methodist Church in Manhattan. Survivors include his wife, Beth of the home; two daughters, Kimberley Balstad, and husband Robert, of New Milford, Connecticut; Julie Garster, and husband James, of Springfield, Virginia; two stepsons Terry J.Morton and his wife of Elisa, of Nuremberg, Germany; and Lee Morton, of Grand Junction, Colorado; and grandchildren Hannah Morton of the home; Brady, Bethany and Benjamin Balstad; and Kevin, Claire and Mary Kate Garster. Visitation will be on Tuesday, March 27 from 5:00pm to 8:00pm, and on Wednesday, March 28 from 9:00am to 8:00pm with the family receiving friends from 6:00pm to 8:00pm at the Irvin-Parkview Funeral Home & Cremation, 1317 Poyntz in Manhattan. A funeral service will be at 10:00am on Thursday, March 29th, at the First United Methodist Church, in Manhattan, burial will follow in the Sunrise Cemetery. The family request donations to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, 7611 State Line Rd, Kansas City, MO 64114 or the Kansas State University Foundation, 2323 Anderson Avenue #500 Manhattan, KS 66502.