Keith Weber played baseball and football at the University of Missouri, pitching for the baseball team and playing quarterback on the gridiron. He later attended law school at Missouri, while serving as an assistant football coach. After graduation he moved to Dallas where started a real estate career, and became a vice-president of Redman Development Corp. He later moved back to Kansas City, where he founded Midland Properties and Midland Loan Services, which became one of the nation’s largest commercial loan companies. Weber died after a long battle with kidney cancer.