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Fern Ketels
FERN KETELS
Jesup
Fern Irene Ketels, 97, of Jesup, died Friday, June 20, 2014, at the Dennis and Donna Oldorf Hospice
House of Mercy, Hiawatha. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday, June 23, at St. Athanasius Catholic Church, Jesup, with Monsignor Lyle Wilgenbusch officiating. Burial will be in St. John's Catholic Cemetery, Independence. Visitation: 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday, June 22, at White Funeral Home, Jesup, with a parish rosary at 3:30 p.m., and an hour before services Monday at the church.
Fern was born Oct. 13, 1916, in Waterloo, Iowa, the daughter of James L. Griffith and Nora G. (Lufkin) Griffith. She married Leo M. Pint on May 29, 1940, in Independence. He preceded her in death in 1969. She married Rodman Baker on Oct. 7, 1974. He preceded her in death in 1975. On March 17, 1988, she married Leslie Ketels. He preceded her in death in 2005.
Mrs. Ketels is survived by six sons, Roger (Jaynie) Pint of Independence, Bernard (Arnette) Pint of Iowa City, Russell (Debra) Pint of Waterloo, David Pint of Ocala, Fla., Steven Pint of Arlington, Va., and Kenneth Pint of Independence; 11 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandson.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husbands; two sons, Gerald in infancy and Alan Pint in 2009; one daughter, Leanne Heidt in 1991; two brothers, Jim Griffith and Victor Griffith; and one sister, Hazel Jensen.
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