Originally assigned to Washington, D.C. at the start of World War II, Kehe worked successively on the Canol Project and Manhattan Project, then retired from active duty with the rank of colonel and returned to Waverly, where he founded the Kehe Construction Company and Cedar Valley Engineering Company.
[2][3] During his first term, he voted against a bill eliminating a bond to file cases regarding housing discrimination.
[4] In his second term, Kehe researched the offering of a tax credit to veterans of the Vietnam War.
After Stoneburner died in 1978, Kehe remarried in 1980, to Anna M. Bauman, who had four children from a previous relationship.
Kehe died on 28 July 1995, after having been admitted to the Waverly Municipal Hospital four days prior.