The embodiment of adaptability, artistic curiosity and an adventuresome spirit, Keith Cohen has traveled widely across the country weaving together a career portfolio of diverse creative pursuits and vast accomplishments.

Whether it has been organizing global activist film festivals or finding practical solutions to social justice issues, working in TV and radio or performing stand-up comedy, this creative wayfarer has zigzagged his way through the universe guided by an immense internal compass of empathy and compassion for others.

That true North led Keith on his truest journey … back home to discover a new a life of authentic meaning and calling.

Along with his sister, Kym, and their parents Serena and Harvey, Keith had grown up working in the family’s business, the Rosedale Memorial Park, a cemetery founded by his grandparents, Florence and Alan Cohen. The family sold the property retaining a portion, the Dear Pet Memorial Park. Today, with both his sister and mother deceased, Keith and his dad continue to build this heart-centered business. “Since 1984, we’ve helped more than 2,200 clients,” Keith says. “What better way to honor my family’s memory and legacy?”

Offering 24/7, compassionate, full burial services to grieving pet owners, Keith and his associates are grateful to the emergency veterinary hospitals in Philadelphia and the surrounding Bucks County and Tri-State area for referring their services. Keith is also grateful to his partnership with Joe, James and Theresa McCrane from Paws to Heaven. a 30-year, family-owned cremation center in Pennsauken. 

“Our pets are cherished members of our families, emotional anchors and sources of pure, unconditional love,” Keith says. “In an ever increasingly complex and sometimes dark world, our pets hold a remarkably deeper meaning to us today than ever before.”

A longtime animal lover, Keith has been a tender guide to laying many different types of pets to rest including dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, ferrets and horses. “I do feel like the work is choosing me as much as I’m choosing it at this point and where I am is where I’m meant to be.”

Helping others is both humbling and rewarding and, for Keith, has been a way to find the balance between grief and joy.

Along with his lifetime best friend, Josh Steckel, Keith founded and runs the Philadelphia Sunchasers, a year-round, out-of-school youth tennis program in West Philadelphia. The nonprofit, volunteer-run organization’s goal is to provide fitness, fun, friendship, good sportsmanship and citizenship.

“Love is service in motion,” Keith says. “Thankful to God, Jesus and the Angels for choosing me for this very special divine mission and purpose.”

Dear Pet Memorial Park is located at 3850 Richelieu Rd., in Bensalem. For more information, call 267-252-2631 or visit
www.DearPetMemorialPark.net.