HENRY KETCHMARK GONE

Mr. Henry Ketchmark, a former Blair business man, died at his home in Sioux City on last Saturday morning, May 10.

Mr. Ketchmark was born and reared to manhood in Calhoun. He came to Blair when but a young man and entered business and it was here that his children grew to maturity.

He moved to Tripp County, South Dakota about fifteen years ago and took up a homestead. Later he left Dakota and moved to Richmond, Neb. then to Broken Bow, then to Bellwood and from Bellwood to a farm which he owned near Clarks, Neb.

He had resided in Sioux City for a number of years now and his three children make that city their home.

His body was brought to his old home in Calhoun for interment and the funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon where a great number of his old friends and relatives gathered to show their respect to the deceased.

At his death he was 62 years, 4 months and 1 day old. He leaves a wife, one son, William, two daughters, Mrs. Lizzie Schneider and Mrs. Dora Palmatier to mourn his death besides other relatives in Calhoun.

Pilot 14 May 1924

Henry Ketchmark, a former Blair resident, died at the home of his daughter, Lizzie, Mrs. Earl Schneider, in Sioux City, Ia., at an early hour Saturday morning of hardening of the arteries. The body was taken to his birthplace, on a farm near Ft. Calhoun, Monday and the funeral held there at 2 o’clock yesterday, Rev. Andreasen officiating. He was buried in the Ft. Calhoun cemetery by the side of a son who died in infancy. His parents are also buried in that city of the dead. He is survived by his wife and three children, Will, of Clarks, Neb., Mrs. Earl Schneider and Mrs. Cora Palmatier, both of Sioux City. He leaves also, three brothers of a family of thirteen children, Will, who lives on the old home place near Ft. Calhoun, Frank, of Omaha and Emil of Neligh, Neb.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~