Clinton County IA Archives Obituaries.....Ketelsen, Velva Jane 2005
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Nettie Mae Lucas ClintonRoots@aol.com May 30, 2005, 9:27 am

The Clinton Herald (www.clintonherald.com)
Velva Jane Ketelsen, 91, of Clinton, died Friday at her home.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at St. Paul Lutheran Church,
Clinton, with the Rev. Elizabeth Liggett officiating. Burial will follow at the
Clinton Lawn Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the Clinton
Chapel Snell-Zornig-Dennis A. Lemke Funeral Homes and Crematory.

Pallbearers will be David Folkers, Jim and Dave Wherry, Russell Holesinger, Ray
Peck and Dan Larson.

She was born July 29, 1913, in Clinton to Herbert and Edith Paasch Morey. She
married Arlo Ketelsen on July 1, 1935, in Clinton. He died in 1994.

She was a graduate of Clinton High School.

She and her husband owned and operated Ketelsen Grocery Store on Camanche Avenue
for 43 years. She later worked as a switchboard operator at the former Jane Lamb
Hospital, Clinton, until retiring in 1983.

She was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church. She and her husband were active
with Luther League and she was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star.

Survivors include two sons, Roger (Donna) Ketelsen of Fulton, Ill., and Robert
(Linda) Ketelsen of West Chicago, Ill.; and three nephews.
 
 
The family requests that memorials be made to St. Paul Lutheran Church.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband and three sisters.

Death Date: May 27, 2005


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