Teaching Career
Keever was a teacher for over 25 years. She believes that public education is the backbone of our democracy. The majority of her career in education was spent teaching 8th grade social studies and language arts. She taught a wide variety of students; from kindergarteners to soldiers in the Army. She retired from teaching in 2002 to give full-time care to her sick husband, who died from cancer the following year.
Keever served as the president of the local and district chapters of the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE).
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