Tim and his wife, Aleah, are facing the most difficult time in their lives as they just received the hard news that Tim has an aggressive form of blood cancer.

On Wednesday, October October 19, 2022, they received the confirmed diagnosis that Tim has Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). Treatment has already started and he will need to spend the next month at Abbott Northwestern hospital where he will receive chemotherapy treatments and ongoing monitoring.

He says that he would rather “be fishing” and they would both like to be “off this ride.” I think we could all agree as friends and family we want this for them as well!

Tim will try to work as much as he can and is able to from his hospital room, but they don’t know what that will look like over the next month. Aleah will stay with him as much as she can, but will also be traveling back and forth from their home in Milaca to the hospital in Minneapolis.

We are organizing this fundraiser to help offset and carry the financial burden this diagnosis has brought to the Keppel family.

If you know this family, you know that they are generous and have given so much to their own community. It’s our turn to show them our generosity, love and support. Let’s help carry their burden during this difficult time.