Biographies and Obituaries
In loving memory
Charles Homer Kettery
Odon Journal
Friday May 31, 1929, page 1
2 Aug 1881 - 23 May 1929
Chas. Kettery dies Thursday.
Well known farmer was past 47 years of age.
Charles Kettery, forty-seven, living south of this city, died at five
o'clock last Thursday afternoon after a long illness. Ill for more that
a year and bedfast practically all that time, Mr. Kettery apparently
was on the road to recovery and about a month ago was able to get about
with the aid of crutches. Two weeks ago he became worse, death resulting
late last Thursday. Bright's disease and dropsy causing his death. He
was born in Madison County, 1881, and came to this county at the age
of one year and had lived here ever since. He was the son of Jacob and
Minerva (Foust) Kettery. On June 19, 1904 Mr. Kettery was united in marriage
to Harriet Chestnut and three children born to this union survive. They
are as follows: Alvis, Herschel, and Treva, all at home. The widow also
is living, as are the mother, of Plainville; a sister Mrs. Albert (Mary
Elizabeth) Killion of Plainville and a brother Joe Kettery of Terre Haute.
Mr. Kettery was a member of the Modern Woodman Lodge of Odon. Funeral
services were held at two o'clock Saturday afternoon at the Plainville
Methodist Church with burial at Walnut Hill.
Contributed by: Janice Smith Hagmeier