Pickering Funeral Home

Taps

Day is done, gone the sun
from the lake, from the hill,
from the sky.

All is well, safely rest.
God is nigh.

Thanks and praise for our days
'neath the sun, 'neath the stars,
'neath the sky.

As we go, this we know.
God is nigh.

H. Edward Ketter, 87, of Mexico, died at 5:55 a.m., Sunday, March 2, 2003, at Audrain Medical Center in Mexico.

Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, March 5, at 11 a.m. at Pickering Funeral Home with the Rev. Robert E. Kerr officiating. Visitation will be on Wednesday from 10 a.m. until time of the service at the funeral home. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery.

Mr. Ketter was born on August 10, 1915, in Mexico, a son of Lewis Oscar and Emily Mary Blum Ketter. On June 8, 1946, in Fairmount, West Virginia, he married D. Louise Brown, who died on Aug. 21, 1998.

Mr. Ketter was raised on a farm in the Bean Creek area of Audrain County. He was a graduate of Mexico High School and the University of Missouri – Columbia, and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He worked as an engineer with the Gary Coal Division of United States Steel Corp. in Gary, West Virginia, where the Ketters lived from 1946 until 1976, when he retired and they moved to Centralia. They moved to Mexico in 1993. Mr. Ketter had resided at the Missouri Veterans Home in Mexico for the past year.

Survivors include one daughter, Mary Booker and her husband William, Charleston, W. V.; a brother, Eldon Ketter and his wife Lucile, Columbia; a sister, Doris Henry and her husband, George, Neosho; and three grandchildren, Jennifer, Rebecca and James.

In addition to his wife, one sister, Miss Eleanor Ketter, preceded him in death.

In lieu of flowers the family suggests memorials to the Missouri Veterans Home in care of Pickering Funeral Home, 403 N. Western, Mexico, MO 65265.