Margaret Hoover Ketcham, a 90-year-old resident of Lee?s Summit, passed away on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2002 at John Knox Village Altzheimer?s Unit.
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Margaret Hoover Ketcham, a 90-year-old resident of Lee?s Summit, passed away on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2002 at John Knox Village Altzheimer?s Unit.
In accordance with Mrs. Ketcham?s wishes, there will be no funeral or visitation. A memorial service will be planned by the family at a future date.
Mrs. Ketcham was born in Trenton on April 21, 1911, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Hoover. She attended public schools in Trenton from primary school through junior college, where she graduated with an associate degree in 1931. She earned a bachelor of arts degree in home economics from Lindenwood College in St. Charles in 1933 and taught school in Brimson for two years and Tindall for one year before marrying R. Lloyd Ketcham on April 18, 1936. She and her husband first lived in Pittsburg, KS until they moved to Kansas City in October 1936. They lived in Kansas City North until 1959, when they moved to Independence. Along with her husband, Mrs. Ketcham owned and operated Lloyd Ketcham Oldsmobile from 1950 until 1993. Their first business was in Liberty, which they then moved to Independence in 1958.
She also did volunteer work in the area from 1946 until 1993, at the American Red Cross after World War II, at the Kansas Medical Center, the Richard Cabot Clinic, and at the Armour Home, where she was chairman of the board for many years, and at the Nelson Art Gallery. Mrs. Ketcham was a member of the Women?s City Club, where she served in various capacities, the Kansas City Club and the First Baptist Church of Lee?s Summit.
Mrs. Ketcham is survived by her husband, Lloyd Ketcham; her children, Robert C. Ketcham of Easton, MD and Mary Beth Maisel of Newton, MA; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Contributions may be made toe the Lloyd and Margaret Ketcham Scholarship Fund, North Central Missouri College in Trenton or to the Lloyd and Margaret Ketcham Scholarship Fund, College of Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia.